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Message-ID: <5511CD10.6040709@free-electrons.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:46:08 -0700 From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@...e-electrons.com> To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, JBottomley@...allels.com CC: joe@...ches.com, Elliott@...com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] aic7xxx: replace kmalloc/memset by kzalloc Hi, On 03/22/2015 11:59 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 03/22/2015 05:31 PM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: >> This replaces kmalloc + memset by a call to kzalloc >> (or kcalloc when appropriate, which zeroes memory too) >> >> This also fixes one checkpatch.pl issue in the process. >> >> This improvement was suggested by "make coccicheck" >> >> Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@...e-electrons.com> > Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de> I'm sending a version that reverts the use of kcalloc() instead of kzalloc(). For reasons I don't understand, I didn't see the end of Robert Elliott's comment that the use of kcalloc() could prevent the compiler from detecting an overflow. Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, CEO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com +33 484 258 098 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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