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Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/grant-table: Use kmalloc_array() in
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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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On 25/08/16 13:30, 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen