linux-kernel - Re: x86-ksysfs: Use kmalloc_array() in create_setup_data

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Date:   Wed, 07 Sep 2016 09:37:00 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>, Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: x86-ksysfs: Use kmalloc_array() in create_setup_data_nodes()

On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 09:23 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Fixing these kmalloc calls would be a nice thing to clean up
> everywhere.

Dubious as gcc cannot currently optimize known small fixed size
allocations with alloc_array and will always perform the
multiplication.

Also the style of sizeof(*ptr) is not always as clear, obvious
nor as easy to grep as sizeof(type).