netdev - Re: [PATCH] ATM-ENI: Use kmalloc_array() in eni

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Date:   Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:26:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net
Cc:     linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        3chas3@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, julia.lawall@...6.fr,
        pbonzini@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ATM-ENI: Use kmalloc_array() in eni_start()

From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:40:06 +0200

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:20:17 +0200
> 
> * A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
>   indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
>   Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".
> 
>   This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> * 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>

Applied to net-next.