From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@netcore.fi>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org,
coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] net/ipv4 : Correct the size argument to kzalloc
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:23:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B41F9DB.1010908@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912292016230.4001@ask.diku.dk>
Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
>
> obj has type struct snmp_object **, not struct snmp_object *. But indeed
> it is not even clear why kmalloc is needed. The memory is freed by the end
> of the function, so the local variable of pointer type should be sufficient.
Thanks. As this is basically just an unneeded and oversized allocation
without any bad consequences, I've applied it to nf-next-2.6.git.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-04 14:23 UTC|newest]
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2009-12-29 19:16 [PATCH 5/5] net/ipv4 : Correct the size argument to kzalloc Julia Lawall
2010-01-04 14:23 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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