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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jiasheng Jiang <jiashengjiangcool@gmail.com>
Cc: GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@marvell.com,
	James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, arun.easi@cavium.com,
	bvanassche@acm.org, jhasan@marvell.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	manish.rangankar@cavium.com, markus.elfring@web.de,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com, nilesh.javali@cavium.com,
	skashyap@marvell.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] scsi: qedf: Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc()
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 16:09:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025020721-silver-uneasy-5565@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250206192000.17827-1-jiashengjiangcool@gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 07:19:59PM +0000, Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() to avoid old (dirty) data being
> used/freed.

"Potentially" being freed.  It will not be used.  And this is only for
an error path that obviously no one has hit before.

Please explain this much better.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-07 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-31 19:54 [PATCH] scsi: qedf: Use kzalloc() and add check for bdt_info Jiasheng Jiang
2025-01-31 20:32 ` Bart Van Assche
2025-01-31 21:35   ` [PATCH v2] scsi: qedf: Use kcalloc() " Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-02 15:22     ` Markus Elfring
2025-02-02 16:54     ` Markus Elfring
2025-02-02 21:21       ` [PATCH] Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-02 21:29       ` [PATCH] scsi: qedf: Add check for bdt_info Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-02 21:32       ` [PATCH] scsi: qedf: Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-03  7:20         ` [PATCH v3?] " Markus Elfring
2025-02-04  2:51           ` [PATCH v3] " Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-04  2:52           ` [PATCH v3?] " Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-04  8:05             ` [v3?] " Markus Elfring
2025-02-05  1:07               ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-05  1:07                 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] scsi: qedf: Add check for bdt_info Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-05  1:08               ` [v3?] scsi: qedf: Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-05  8:11                 ` Markus Elfring
2025-02-06  5:12                   ` Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-06 12:16                     ` Markus Elfring
2025-02-06  5:25                   ` [PATCH 0/2] scsi: qedf: Replace alloction API and add null check Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-06  5:25                     ` [PATCH 1/2] scsi: qedf: Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-06  5:36                       ` Greg KH
2025-02-06  5:38                         ` Greg KH
2025-02-06 19:19                           ` [PATCH v2 " Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-06 19:20                             ` [PATCH v2 2/2] scsi: qedf: Add check for bdt_info Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-07 15:09                             ` Greg KH [this message]
2025-02-07 15:45                               ` [PATCH v3 1/2] scsi: qedf: Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-07 15:45                                 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] scsi: qedf: Add check for bdt_info Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-07 15:46                               ` [PATCH v2 1/2] scsi: qedf: Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-06  5:25                     ` [PATCH 2/2] scsi: qedf: Add check for bdt_info Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-06 11:56                     ` [PATCH v5? 0/2] scsi: qedf: Replace alloction API and add null check Markus Elfring
2025-02-05  2:01               ` [PATCH RESEND v3 1/2] scsi: qedf: Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-05  2:01                 ` [PATCH RESEND v3 2/2] scsi: qedf: Add check for bdt_info Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-02 21:33       ` [PATCH v2] scsi: qedf: Use kcalloc() and add " Jiasheng Jiang

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