Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc

[Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>]

Thanks, I realized just now that I introduced this.
 Manuel

On Fri, 2026-05-29 at 10:10 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The first parameter should match the variable that the allocated memory
> is assigned to. Fix the example accordingly, the one for kmalloc_obj got
> it right already.
> 
> Fixes: 7c6d969d5349 ("Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-
> family")
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-
> style.rst
> index a3bf75dc7c88..a8336582f60b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -959,13 +959,13 @@ The preferred form for allocating an array is the following:
>  
>  .. code-block:: c
>  
> -	p = kmalloc_objs(*ptr, n, ...);
> +	p = kmalloc_objs(*p, n, ...);
>  
>  The preferred form for allocating a zeroed array is the following:
>  
>  .. code-block:: c
>  
> -	p = kzalloc_objs(*ptr, n, ...);
> +	p = kzalloc_objs(*p, n, ...);
>  
>  Both forms check for overflow on the allocation size n * sizeof(...),
>  and return NULL if that occurred.
> 
> base-commit: f7af91adc230aa99e23330ecf85bc9badd9780ad