Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:51:49 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: Use kmalloc_array() in merge_attr() |
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On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 11:00:15AM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> > Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 10:45:20 +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.
Why!?
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