linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] clk: mvebu: Use kcalloc() in two functions

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Message-ID: <20170422024936.GR7065@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2017 19:49:36 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] clk: mvebu: Use kcalloc() in two functions

On 04/19, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:08:54 +0200
> 
> * Multiplications for the size determination of memory allocations
>   indicated that array data structures should be processed.
>   Thus use the corresponding function "kcalloc".
> 
>   This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> * Replace the specification of data types by pointer dereferences
>   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>
> ---

Applied to clk-next

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