linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] IB/ocrdma: Improve size determinations in ten functions

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Date:   Mon, 24 Apr 2017 08:54:13 -0400
From:   Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
Cc:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@...gotech.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier@...gotech.com>,
        Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@...cle.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] IB/ocrdma: Improve size determinations in ten
 functions

On 04/23/2017 03:33 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 04:36:19PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
>> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 13:26:49 +0200
>>
>> Replace the specification of data types by pointer dereferences
>> as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size
>> determinations a bit safer according to the Linux coding style convention.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
>> ---
>>
>> v2:
>> Changes were rebased on source files from Linux next-20170421.
>> These were recombined as requested by Doug Ledford.
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> I recommend you to be extra cautious with this blind automatic
> conversions. It requires inspection that every size before and after
> match each other.
>
> I already asked it and would be like to repeat it. Please DON'T take any
> patches from Markus, which are related to mlx4/mlx5/rxe without our explicit
> review of them.

I agree with Leon here, and these sort of find/replace automagic 
clean-up patches make me nervous sometimes.

Markus, what have you done to ensure your patches don't break anything?

-Denny