Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org> writes:

> The first parameter should match the variable that the allocated memory
> is assigned to. Fix the example accordingly, the one for kmalloc_obj got
> it right already.
>
> Fixes: 7c6d969d5349 ("Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family")
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> index a3bf75dc7c88..a8336582f60b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -959,13 +959,13 @@ The preferred form for allocating an array is the following:
>  
>  .. code-block:: c
>  
> -	p = kmalloc_objs(*ptr, n, ...);
> +	p = kmalloc_objs(*p, n, ...);
>  
>  The preferred form for allocating a zeroed array is the following:
>  
>  .. code-block:: c
>  
> -	p = kzalloc_objs(*ptr, n, ...);
> +	p = kzalloc_objs(*p, n, ...);
>  
>  Both forms check for overflow on the allocation size n * sizeof(...),
>  and return NULL if that occurred.

Applied, thanks.

jon