From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@uk.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] buggered kmalloc()
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:00:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070720210046.GK21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070720200530.GA9978@redhat.com>
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:05:30PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:03:40PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c
> > index aebcd5f..7829ab1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c
> > @@ -1885,7 +1885,7 @@ static int iscsi_tcp_get_addr(struct iscsi_conn *conn, struct socket *sock,
> > struct sockaddr_in *sin;
> > int rc = 0, len;
> >
> > - addr = kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL, sizeof(*addr));
> > + addr = kmalloc(sizeof(*addr), GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (!addr)
> > return -ENOMEM;
>
> This seems like something that would be trivial to check for in checkpatch.
Or just run sparse before and after - all such places stand out immediately...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-20 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-20 15:03 [PATCH] buggered kmalloc() Al Viro
2007-07-20 20:05 ` Dave Jones
2007-07-20 21:00 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-07-20 21:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
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