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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@kernel.org>,
	"Manuel Ebner" <manuelebner@mailbox.org>,
	"Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	"SeongJae Park" <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:48:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fr369jw3.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260529081006.2019687-2-ukleinek@kernel.org>

Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org> writes:

> The first parameter should match the variable that the allocated memory
> is assigned to. Fix the example accordingly, the one for kmalloc_obj got
> it right already.
>
> Fixes: 7c6d969d5349 ("Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family")
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> index a3bf75dc7c88..a8336582f60b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -959,13 +959,13 @@ The preferred form for allocating an array is the following:
>  
>  .. code-block:: c
>  
> -	p = kmalloc_objs(*ptr, n, ...);
> +	p = kmalloc_objs(*p, n, ...);
>  
>  The preferred form for allocating a zeroed array is the following:
>  
>  .. code-block:: c
>  
> -	p = kzalloc_objs(*ptr, n, ...);
> +	p = kzalloc_objs(*p, n, ...);
>  
>  Both forms check for overflow on the allocation size n * sizeof(...),
>  and return NULL if that occurred.

Applied, thanks.

jon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-01 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-29  8:10 [PATCH] Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc Uwe Kleine-König
2026-05-29  8:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-06-01 18:48 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2026-06-01 20:08 ` Kees Cook

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