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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:03:36 +0200 From: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com> To: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>, 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 12:54 AM, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote: > 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) > Hmmm, maybe we should "fix" the argument order of bio_kmalloc(). But as this function is exported we'd silently break some out-of-tree kernel modules.... -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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