public inbox for stable@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jiasheng Jiang <jiashengjiangcool@gmail.com>
Cc: GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@marvell.com,
	James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, arun.easi@cavium.com,
	bvanassche@acm.org, jhasan@marvell.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	manish.rangankar@cavium.com, markus.elfring@web.de,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com, nilesh.javali@cavium.com,
	skashyap@marvell.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] scsi: qedf: Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc()
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 16:09:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025020721-silver-uneasy-5565@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250206192000.17827-1-jiashengjiangcool@gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 07:19:59PM +0000, Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() to avoid old (dirty) data being
> used/freed.

"Potentially" being freed.  It will not be used.  And this is only for
an error path that obviously no one has hit before.

Please explain this much better.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-07 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <d4db5506-6ace-4585-972e-6b7a6fc882a4@web.de>
     [not found] ` <20250206052523.16683-1-jiashengjiangcool@gmail.com>
2025-02-06  5:25   ` [PATCH 1/2] scsi: qedf: Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-06  5:36     ` Greg KH
2025-02-06  5:38       ` Greg KH
2025-02-06 19:19         ` [PATCH v2 " Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-06 19:20           ` [PATCH v2 2/2] scsi: qedf: Add check for bdt_info Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-07 15:09           ` Greg KH [this message]
2025-02-07 15:45             ` [PATCH v3 1/2] scsi: qedf: Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-07 15:45               ` [PATCH v3 2/2] scsi: qedf: Add check for bdt_info Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-07 15:46             ` [PATCH v2 1/2] scsi: qedf: Replace kmalloc_array() with kcalloc() Jiasheng Jiang
2025-02-06  5:25   ` [PATCH 2/2] scsi: qedf: Add check for bdt_info Jiasheng Jiang

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=2025020721-silver-uneasy-5565@gregkh \
    --to=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
    --cc=GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@marvell.com \
    --cc=James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com \
    --cc=arun.easi@cavium.com \
    --cc=bvanassche@acm.org \
    --cc=jhasan@marvell.com \
    --cc=jiashengjiangcool@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=manish.rangankar@cavium.com \
    --cc=markus.elfring@web.de \
    --cc=martin.petersen@oracle.com \
    --cc=nilesh.javali@cavium.com \
    --cc=skashyap@marvell.com \
    --cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox