From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: elfring@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
3chas3@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, julia.lawall@lip6.fr,
pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ATM-ENI: Use kmalloc_array() in eni_start()
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:26:52 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160909.192652.526503079536383297.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8468294-dff0-f34c-bf16-bb04435d465c@users.sourceforge.net>
From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:40:06 +0200
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:20:17 +0200
>
> * A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
> indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
> Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> * Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
> to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
> the Linux coding style convention.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Applied to net-next.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-10 2:26 UTC|newest]
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2016-09-08 12:40 [PATCH] ATM-ENI: Use kmalloc_array() in eni_start() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-10 2:26 ` David Miller [this message]
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