linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: vt6656: Don't leak memory in drivers/staging/vt6656/ioctl.c::private

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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:17:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:	Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Forest Bond <forest@...ttletooquiet.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: vt6656: Don't leak memory in
 drivers/staging/vt6656/ioctl.c::private_ioctl()

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:46:33PM -0400, Xi Wang wrote:
> > On Apr 11, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > 
> > > -		pNodeList = (PSNodeList)kmalloc(sizeof(SNodeList) + (sNodeList.uItem * sizeof(SNodeItem)), (int)GFP_ATOMIC);
> > > +		pNodeList = kmalloc(sizeof(SNodeList) + (sNodeList.uItem * sizeof(SNodeItem)), (int)GFP_ATOMIC);
> > 
> > Can you also remove casts like "(int)GFP_ATOMIC"?
> > 
> > The parentheses "(sNodeList.uItem * sizeof(SNodeItem))" are also
> > pointless..
> 
> One thing at a time, odds are this is an "automated" patch, right
> Jesper?
> 

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "automated patch" Greg. Manually 
editing the file in emacs, then running "git format-patch", followed by 
importing the patch file into alpine and sending it off surely didn't 
feel "automated" ;-)

The only reason I even included the change of the return value cast was 
that it was the variable I was focusing on with regards to fixing the 
leak, so it felt "sufficiently related" to include in the same patch.
I certainly was not on a mission to clean up the file in general - just 
fixing the leak was all that was really on the agenda.
I don't *mind* fixing up other issues in the file - sure, I can do that, 
but that's an entirely different set of patches then...

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