From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965133AbcIGKgc (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2016 06:36:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38534 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751038AbcIGKga (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2016 06:36:30 -0400 Subject: Re: x86-ksysfs: Use kmalloc_array() in create_setup_data_nodes() To: SF Markus Elfring , Kees Cook References: <3b21b2d7-9856-009c-9bd1-3a76a83bc7fc@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar , "x86@kernel.org" , Dave Young , "H. Peter Anvin" , Matt Fleming , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 12:36:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.27]); Wed, 07 Sep 2016 10:36:30 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/09/2016 09:49, SF Markus Elfring wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Which rule-set was used? > > Do you get an useful impression from one of my bug reports > (or feature requests) like "Fix usage of white-space characters > at two places for Linux coding style" which evolved together with > the proposed software refactoring? > https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/issues/76 > > I am curious if the time is ready now for the development of another > script for the semantic patch language which can be executed > by the make interface "coccicheck" after Julia Lawall improved > also software components a bit more recently. > https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/commits/ > > Are you looking for further possibilities to improve the involved > source code search patterns? Why are you not answering the simple question that was asked? Paolo