Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: x86-ksysfs: Use kmalloc_array() in create_setup_data_nodes() | From | SF Markus Elfring <> | Date | Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:55:09 +0200 |
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> Fixing these kmalloc calls would be a nice thing to clean up everywhere.
Thanks for your acknowledgement of such a software improvement opportunity.
> Since it is a mistake people may continue to make, I think it would > make sense to add a coccinelle script that can do this to the > existing coccinelle scripts in the kernel if one to do it does not > already exist. That way, it will be part of the coccinelle checking > that is automatically run on the kernel regularly.
I am curious on how many contributors would like to help a bit more in such a software development task.
How do you think about to clarify corresponding challenges better?
Do you find any details interesting which are described in a feature request (or article) like "Improve determination of sizes with SmPL"? https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/issues/80
Regards, Markus
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