linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] ISDN-Gigaset: Fine-tuning for three function implementations

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Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:56:06 +0200
From:   Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     gigaset307x-common@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] ISDN-Gigaset: Fine-tuning for three function
 implementations

On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 17:37 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> Some update suggestions were taken into account
> from static source code analysis.
> 
> Markus Elfring (5):
>   Use kmalloc_array() in two functions
>   Improve another size determination in gigaset_initcs()
>   Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation
>   Release memory in gigaset_initcs() after an allocation failure
>   Enclose two expressions for the sizeof operator by parentheses
> 
>  drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Two of the five patches introduced bugs. The rest of the series isn't
free of various nits either. Of course, I was in no mood to be lenient
when I looked at those three patches.

I won't take any of these patches, sorry.


Paul Bolle