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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Ethan Carter Edwards <ethan@ethancedwards.com>,
	"agk@redhat.com" <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: "snitzer@kernel.org" <snitzer@kernel.org>,
	"dm-devel@lists.linux.dev" <dm-devel@lists.linux.dev>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com"
	<kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
	"linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mpatocka@redhat.com" <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm: change kzalloc to kcalloc
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:42:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d38e99d7-1f24-4c7b-87de-111c345b02cf@embeddedor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z7XWRfRi3Fn25wT4Dg19JRN4xrKcCt3TxaxZwsR_0LDR2C6fQxCiLrsMBfJg8f_ZqSAx3u6aPm-TR02dC6bLpMmqSI_jp_ADiJ_qW_27puk=@ethancedwards.com>



On 24/12/24 16:13, Ethan Carter Edwards wrote:
> Use 2-factor multiplication argument form kcalloc() instead
> of instead of the deprecated kzalloc() [1].

Thanks for the patch - Just note that kzalloc() is by no means
deprecated.

> 
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Carter Edwards <ethan@ethancedwards.com>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>

-Gustavo

> ---
>   drivers/md/dm-ps-io-affinity.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ps-io-affinity.c b/drivers/md/dm-ps-io-affinity.c
> index 461ee6b2044d..716807e511ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-ps-io-affinity.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-ps-io-affinity.c
> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static int ioa_create(struct path_selector *ps, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
>   	if (!s)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
>   
> -	s->path_map = kzalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(struct path_info *),
> +	s->path_map = kcalloc(nr_cpu_ids, sizeof(struct path_info *),
>   			     GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!s->path_map)
>   		goto free_selector;


      reply	other threads:[~2024-12-24 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-24 22:13 [PATCH] dm: change kzalloc to kcalloc Ethan Carter Edwards
2024-12-24 22:42 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]

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