From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Benjamin Sherman <benjamin@bensherman.io>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: mt7621-dma: sizeof via pointer dereference
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 14:57:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190530215708.GA20810@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190530214142.cna6mgdhqgxgaczw@valkyrie-prime.rpi>
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 09:41:43PM +0000, Benjamin Sherman wrote:
> Pass the size of a struct into kzalloc by pointer dereference. This
> complies with the Linux kernel coding style and removes the possibility
> for a bug when the pointer's type is changed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Sherman <benjamin@bensherman.io>
> ---
> This is my first patch, so please forgive any seemingly obvious
> mistakes. I apologize if this is the incorrect mailing list.
> ---
> drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/mtk-hsdma.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Can you resend and properly cc: the needed developers and mailing list
that scripts/get_maintainer.pl says to cc:?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-30 22:02 UTC|newest]
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2019-05-30 21:41 [PATCH] staging: mt7621-dma: sizeof via pointer dereference Benjamin Sherman
2019-05-30 21:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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