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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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[PATCH] perf/x86: Use kmalloc_array() in merge_attr() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-09-04 11:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: Use kmalloc_array() in merge_attr() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-05 10:00 +0200

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