linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4.19-rc7] treewide: Replace more open-coded allocation size multiplications

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Date:   Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:51:31 -0700
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4.19-rc7] treewide: Replace more open-coded allocation
 size multiplications

On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:35:59PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> As done treewide earlier, this catches several more open-coded
> allocation size calculations that were added to the kernel during the
> merge window. This performs the following mechanical transformations
> using Coccinelle:
> 
> 	kvmalloc(a * b, ...) -> kvmalloc_array(a, b, ...)
> 	kvzalloc(a * b, ...) -> kvcalloc(a, b, ...)
> 	devm_kzalloc(..., a * b, ...) -> devm_kcalloc(..., a, b, ...)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Has this had any testing in linux-next?

And when was "earlier"?

thanks,

greg k-h