linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] mmc-core: Use kcalloc() in mmc_test_alloc

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdb+DhRbZnRR6BxYVU67mrGg12kURV=AOVM62g9=2oRMfA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 9 Jan 2017 19:36:36 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>
Cc:     "linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Harjani Ritesh <riteshh@...eaurora.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>,
        Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] mmc-core: Use kcalloc() in mmc_test_alloc_mem()

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 10:50 PM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 21:43:12 +0100
>
> * The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following.
>
>   WARNING: Prefer kcalloc over kzalloc with multiply
>
>   Thus fix the affected source code place.
>
> * Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
>   to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
>   the Linux coding style convention.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij