linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] gendwarfksyms: use preferred form of sizeof for allocation

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Message-ID: <20250701170647.GA2234472@google.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 17:06:47 +0000
From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To: Giuliano Procida <gprocida@...gle.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] gendwarfksyms: use preferred form of sizeof for
 allocation

On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 04:19:10PM +0100, Giuliano Procida wrote:
> The preferred form is to use the variable being allocated to, rather
> than explicitly supplying a type name which might become stale.
> 
> Also do this for memset.
> 
> Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Giuliano Procida <gprocida@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>

Sami