linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SCSI, pmcraid: Fix kmalloc() argument order in pmcraid_chr

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Date:	Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:54:59 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
	Anil Ravindranath <anil_ravindranath@...-sierra.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI, pmcraid: Fix kmalloc() argument order in
 pmcraid_chr_ioctl()

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:50:08AM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
 
 > BTW: What about a checkpatch.pl rule to detect such a misuse of kmalloc()?
 > We could grep for "k[mzc]alloc(GFP_".

Make sure to ignore bio_kmalloc (which has reverse argument order to kmalloc, ugh)

	Dave
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