Re: [PATCH-for-10.2 v2] migration: Replace g_malloc0_n by g_new0 (fixes compiler warning)

[Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>]

On 12/9/25 15:00, Stefan Weil via wrote:
> This fixes a compiler error when higher warning levels are enabled:
> 
> ../migration/postcopy-ram.c: In function ‘postcopy_temp_pages_setup’:
> ../migration/postcopy-ram.c:1483:50: error: ‘g_malloc0_n’ sizes specified with ‘sizeof’ in the earlier argument and not in the later argument [-Werror=calloc-transposed-args]
>   1483 |     mis->postcopy_tmp_pages = g_malloc0_n(sizeof(PostcopyTmpPage), channels);
>        |                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ../migration/postcopy-ram.c:1483:50: note: earlier argument should specify number of elements, later size of each element
> 
> Avoid also a related int/unsigned mismatch by fixing the type of
> two local variables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

r~

> ---
> 
> v2: Replace g_malloc0_n by g_new0.
> 
> Thanks for all comments and reviews.
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
>   migration/postcopy-ram.c | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/migration/postcopy-ram.c b/migration/postcopy-ram.c
> index 3f98dcb6fd..8bef0192aa 100644
> --- a/migration/postcopy-ram.c
> +++ b/migration/postcopy-ram.c
> @@ -1467,7 +1467,8 @@ retry:
>   static int postcopy_temp_pages_setup(MigrationIncomingState *mis)
>   {
>       PostcopyTmpPage *tmp_page;
> -    int err, i, channels;
> +    int err;
> +    unsigned i, channels;
>       void *temp_page;
>   
>       if (migrate_postcopy_preempt()) {
> @@ -1479,7 +1480,7 @@ static int postcopy_temp_pages_setup(MigrationIncomingState *mis)
>       }
>   
>       channels = mis->postcopy_channels;
> -    mis->postcopy_tmp_pages = g_malloc0_n(sizeof(PostcopyTmpPage), channels);
> +    mis->postcopy_tmp_pages = g_new0(PostcopyTmpPage, channels);
>   
>       for (i = 0; i < channels; i++) {
>           tmp_page = &mis->postcopy_tmp_pages[i];