Re: [PATCH] ATM-ForeRunnerHE: Use kmalloc_array() in he_init_group()

From	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] ATM-ForeRunnerHE: Use kmalloc_array() in he_init_group()
Date	2016-09-10 04:30 +0200
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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:50:05 +0200

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:43:37 +0200
> 
> * Multiplications for the size determination of memory allocations
>   indicated that array data structures should be processed.
>   Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".
> 
>   This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> * Replace the specification of data types by pointer dereferences
>   to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
>   the Linux coding style convention.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>

Applied.

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