linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] staging: exfat: replace kmalloc with kmalloc

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Date:   Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:25:03 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Roi Martin <jroi.martin@...il.com>
Cc:     valdis.kletnieks@...edu, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] staging: exfat: replace kmalloc with kmalloc_array

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 01:31:39PM +0100, Roi Martin wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_core.c b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_core.c
> index f71235c6a338..f4f82aecc05d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_core.c
> @@ -713,8 +713,8 @@ static s32 __load_upcase_table(struct super_block *sb, sector_t sector,
>  
>  	u32 checksum = 0;
>  
> -	upcase_table = p_fs->vol_utbl = kmalloc(UTBL_COL_COUNT * sizeof(u16 *),
> -						GFP_KERNEL);
> +	upcase_table = kmalloc_array(UTBL_COL_COUNT, sizeof(u16 *), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	p_fs->vol_utbl = upcase_table;

This patch is fine, but one idea for future patches is that you could
remove the "upcase_table" variable and use "p_fs->vol_utbl" everywhere
instead.

>  	if (!upcase_table)
>  		return -ENOMEM;

regards,
dan carpenter