From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755041AbcH0IsY (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2016 04:48:24 -0400 Received: from mx01-fr.bfs.de ([193.174.231.67]:60054 "EHLO mx01-fr.bfs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753466AbcH0IsW (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2016 04:48:22 -0400 Message-ID: <57C153D0.3010309@bfs.de> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:48:16 +0200 From: walter harms Reply-To: wharms@bfs.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125 SUSE/3.0.11 Thunderbird/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Fenghua Yu , Tony Luck , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall , Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] IA64-IRQ: Use kmalloc_array() in sn_irq_lh_init() References: <349bbfb4-bada-628e-2981-ca2a315299fc@users.sourceforge.net> <2e046b40-1c8e-717f-68b1-534c3125724c@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <2e046b40-1c8e-717f-68b1-534c3125724c@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 26.08.2016 20:02, schrieb SF Markus Elfring: > From: Markus Elfring > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 18:32:53 +0200 > > * A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation > indicated that an array data structure should be processed. > Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array". > > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. > > * Replace the specification of data structures by pointer dereferences > to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to > the Linux coding style convention. > > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring > --- > arch/ia64/sn/kernel/irq.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/irq.c b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/irq.c > index 85d0951..c7f9eea 100644 > --- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/irq.c > +++ b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/irq.c > @@ -474,12 +474,12 @@ void __init sn_irq_lh_init(void) > { > int i; > > - sn_irq_lh = kmalloc(sizeof(struct list_head *) * NR_IRQS, GFP_KERNEL); > + sn_irq_lh = kmalloc_array(NR_IRQS, sizeof(*sn_irq_lh), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!sn_irq_lh) > panic("SN PCI INIT: Failed to allocate memory for PCI init\n"); > > for (i = 0; i < NR_IRQS; i++) { > - sn_irq_lh[i] = kmalloc(sizeof(struct list_head), GFP_KERNEL); > + sn_irq_lh[i] = kmalloc(*sn_irq_lh[i], GFP_KERNEL); perhaps a sizeof(*sn_irq_lh[i]) is here intended ? re, wh > if (!sn_irq_lh[i]) > panic("SN PCI INIT: Failed IRQ memory allocation\n"); >