linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1.1] gpiolib: append SFI helpers for GPIO API

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Date:	Wed, 5 Jun 2013 16:41:44 +0300
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ryan Mallon <rmallon@...il.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...el.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Cohen <david.a.cohen@...el.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1.1] gpiolib: append SFI helpers for GPIO API

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 11:16 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Sun, 2013-06-02 at 19:06 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 11:59 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>> > > On 31/05/13 19:27, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> > > > +       sfi_gpio_table = kmalloc(num * sizeof(*pentry), GFP_KERNEL);
>> > > Use kcalloc when you have a size and a count.
>> > kmalloc_array unless you want zero'ed memory
>> One proposed to use kmemdup to clean up a bit. What do you think?
>
> Seems correct to use kmemdup but what validates num?

num comes from SFI firmware. We only could rely on what kmalloc/kmemdup returns.

> It seems like a possible error path exists there regardless
> of whether kmemdup is used or not.

That's true. The advantage of kmemdup is an implicit memcpy. Thus, we
could drop away that line.

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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