On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 09:23 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > Fixing these kmalloc calls would be a nice thing to clean up > everywhere.
Dubious as gcc cannot currently optimize known small fixed size allocations with alloc_array and will always perform the multiplication. Also the style of sizeof(*ptr) is not always as clear, obvious nor as easy to grep as sizeof(type).
