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Re: [PATCH] wifi: rtw89: fw: Remove "const" on allocation type

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Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In preparation for making the kmalloc family of allocators type aware,
> we need to make sure that the returned type from the allocation matches
> the type of the variable being assigned. (Before, the allocator would
> always return "void *", which can be implicitly cast to any pointer type.)
> 
> The assigned type is "struct rtw89_reg2_def *" but the returned type,
> while technically matching, will be const qualified. As there isn't a
> general way to discard "const" qualifiers, adjust the returned type to
> match the assigned type. No change in allocation size results.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>

1 patch(es) applied to rtw-next branch of rtw.git, thanks.

5b8dfb75b2c7 wifi: rtw89: fw: Remove "const" on allocation type

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https://github.com/pkshih/rtw.git





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