On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 17:38 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> * Multiplications for the size determination of memory allocations
> indicated that array data structures should be processed.
> Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".
Was the current code incorrect? What makes kmalloc_array() better? None
of this is obvious to me.
I'm not going to change code just because some checker suggests to do
so.
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
So? And which coccinelle script was actually used? I couldn't spot a
coccinelle script doing that in the current tree.
> * 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.
I'm not happy with you mixing this with the above, less trivial,
change.
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
> --- a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
> +++ b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
> @@ -709,8 +709,7 @@ struct cardstate *gigaset_initcs(struct gigaset_driver
> *drv, int channels,
>
> cs->mode = M_UNKNOWN;
> cs->mstate = MS_UNINITIALIZED;
> -
Unrelated whitespace change.
> - cs->bcs = kmalloc(channels * sizeof(struct bc_state), GFP_KERNEL);
> + cs->bcs = kmalloc_array(channels, sizeof(*cs->bcs), GFP_KERNEL);
For the record: "channels" is basically hardcoded in the three gigaset
hardware drivers.
> cs->inbuf = kmalloc(sizeof(struct inbuf_t), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!cs->bcs || !cs->inbuf) {
> pr_err("out of memory\n");
> @@ -1089,8 +1088,7 @@ struct gigaset_driver
> *gigaset_initdriver(unsigned minor, unsigned minors,
> drv->ops = ops;
> drv->owner = owner;
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&drv->list);
> -
Again unrelated whitespace change.
> - drv->cs = kmalloc(minors * sizeof *drv->cs, GFP_KERNEL);
> + drv->cs = kmalloc_array(minors, sizeof(*drv->cs), GFP_KERNEL);
For "minors" the same holds as for "channels", above.
And you snuck in a parentheses change. That should have probably been
merged with 5/5.
> if (!drv->cs)
> goto error;
Paul Bolle
