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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:44:04 +0100
From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] coresight: cti: Add const to con_groups allocation type
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 02:14:29PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> From: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>

> ... As there is no general way to
> safely add const qualifiers, take the size from the assignment target
> instead. No change in allocation size results.
> 
> Build tested ARCH=arm64 allmodconfig with GCC aarch64-linux-gnu 16.1.0:
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.o
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>