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[82.69.66.36]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-4988f5b1ce3sm8610917f8f.14.2026.11.11.02.25.36 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 11 Nov 2026 02:25:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:25:35 +0000 From: David Laight To: Alejandro Colomar Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, Krzysztof Kozlowski , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Geert Uytterhoeven , Andreas Schwab , Andy Shevchenko , Bartosz Golaszewski , Daniel Scally , Danilo Krummrich , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Hans Verkuil , Heikki Krogerus , Joe Perches , Johan Hovold , Kees Cook , Laurent Pinchart , Len Brown , Linus Torvalds , Linus Walleij , Namhyung Kim , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Rob Herring , Sakari Ailus , Saravana Kannan , Steven Rostedt , Tom Zanussi , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, driver-core@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] stddef: Add const_cast() Message-ID: <20261111102535.434c2eee@pumpkin> In-Reply-To: <2bf5cf7baad87b5b7b7f833df390596a033fd6f6.1794323750.git.alx@kernel.org> References: <2bf5cf7baad87b5b7b7f833df390596a033fd6f6.1794323750.git.alx@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:33:40 +0100 Alejandro Colomar wrote: > This macro serves to cast const away without risking unwanted > conversions due to mistakes in the cast. > > It's similar to C++'s const_cast(), but it is more restrictive: it can > only cast away 'const', and not arbitrary qualifiers. > > Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar > --- > include/linux/stddef.h | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/linux/stddef.h b/include/linux/stddef.h > index e1851c50c89b..d79a81406b78 100644 > --- a/include/linux/stddef.h > +++ b/include/linux/stddef.h > @@ -194,4 +194,16 @@ enum { > #define TRAILING_OVERLAP(TYPE, NAME, FAM, MEMBERS) \ > __TRAILING_OVERLAP(TYPE, NAME, FAM, /* no attrs */, MEMBERS) > > +/** > + * const_cast() - Drop const in the left-most derivation of a pointer > + * > + * @T: Type for the cast. > + * @p: Pointer to be casted. > + * > + * If @p is of type const @T, then it is casted to @T. > + * Otherwise, @p is returned without any casts. > + * This avoids mistakes that change anything other than 'const' in a cast. > + */ > +#define const_cast(T, p) _Generic(p, const T: (T) (p), default: (p)) Should it be de_const_cast(), or just de_const(). It is a shame you need to specify the type, but why not: _Generic(p, T: p, const T: (T)(p)) so that you get a compile time error from the _Generic() if the type is wrong. David > + > #endif