On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 03:32:17PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > Mirroring the type-based allocation now in use for the kmalloc family of > APIs, provide the same for the devm_kmalloc family of APIs. This will > allow for future plumbing of type information (e.g. alignment) into the > underlying allocations. This immediately gains type check on return > values (instead of the prior "void *" return type). > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > --- > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> > Cc: Danilo Krummrich <[email protected]> > Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > --- > include/linux/device/devres.h | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 102 insertions(+)
I'm guessing you want this to go through your tree? If so, that's great: Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Otherwise let us know and we can take it through the driver core tree. thanks, greg k-h

