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Message-ID: <20110711082536.GA29007@gallifrey>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:25:36 +0100
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc: teigland@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kmallocs with swapped parameters in fs/dlm/lock.c
* Jesper Juhl (jj@...osbits.net) wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>
> > Hi David,
> > Sparse spotted a couple of places in fs/dlm/lock.c where the size/flags
> > parameters to kmalloc got swapped:
> >
> [...]
> > Jesper:
> > I noticed in your patch:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/2/90
> >
> > where you had done a kmalloc->kzalloc transform you kept the swap.
> >
> > This looks like new code in 3.0rc so I don't think you could quite
> > call it a regression, but it should probably be fixed fairly quickly
> > I guess.
> >
> D'oh, I completely overlooked that.
No problem.
> Thank you for noticing and letting me know. I've just submitted an updated
> patch.
Great - it's probably worth you fixing the 2nd case in the same file
in the same patch, rather than just the one that you were changing
anyway?
Dave
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