On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 12:58 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 12:11 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Convert sizeof foo to sizeof(foo) and allocations with multiplications
> > to the appropriate kcalloc/kmalloc_array styles.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> > ---
> 
> Gah.
> 
> This is one of the hotest NIC driver on linux at this moment, 
> with XDP and other efforts going on.
> 
> Some kmalloc() are becoming kmalloc_node() in some dev branches, and
> there is no kmalloc_array_node() yet.

Well that kmalloc_array_node, like this patch, is pretty trivial to add.
Something like the attached for kmalloc_array_node and kcalloc_node.

> This kind of patch is making rebases/backports very painful.

That's really not an issue for me.

> Could we wait ~6 months before doing such cleanup/changes please ?

This is certainly a trivial patch that could be
done at almost any time.

> If you believe a bug needs a fix, please send a patch to address it.
> 
> Thanks.

No worries.