From: "Christophe Jaillet" <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] /lib/kobject.c
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:21:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hn3pog$8co$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Hi, here is a patch against /lib/kobject.c.
No need to allocate more memory than usefull.
Here, we only need 12 (strlen("DEVPATH_OLD=")) + 1 (\0) extra bytes. This
saves 2 bytes !!! and improve readability IMO.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
---
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 0487d1f..958cc76 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ int kobject_rename(struct kobject *kobj, const char
*new_name)
error = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
- devpath_string = kmalloc(strlen(devpath) + 15, GFP_KERNEL);
+ devpath_string = kmalloc(12 + strlen(devpath) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!devpath_string) {
error = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
next reply other threads:[~2010-03-08 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-08 21:21 Christophe Jaillet [this message]
2010-03-08 21:35 ` [patch] /lib/kobject.c Greg KH
2010-03-09 17:35 ` walter harms
2010-03-09 18:12 ` Greg KH
2010-03-09 18:49 ` Julia Lawall
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