Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/grant-table: Use kmalloc_array() in arch_gnttab_valloc()

From	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/grant-table: Use kmalloc_array() in arch_gnttab_valloc()
Date	2016-08-26 11:50 +0200
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On 25/08/16 12:30, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:23:06 +0200
> 
> * A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
>   indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
>   Thus reuse the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".
> 
>   This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> * Replace the specification of a data type by a pointer dereference
>   to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
>   the Linux coding style convention.

Applied to for-linus-4.9, thanks.

David

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[PATCH] xen/grant-table: Use kmalloc_array() in arch_gnttab_valloc() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-08-25 13:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] xen/grant-table: Use kmalloc_array() in  arch_gnttab_valloc() Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2016-08-25 14:10 +0200
  Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/grant-table: Use kmalloc_array() in  arch_gnttab_valloc() David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> - 2016-08-26 11:50 +0200

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