Re: [PATCH] SCSI, pmcraid: Fix kmalloc() argument order inpmcraid_chr_ioctl()

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Mon Oct 24 2011 - 18:47:08 EST


On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 00:38 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > The first argument to kmalloc() is the size, the second is
> > flags. pmcraid_chr_ioctl() gets this wrong and swaps the
> > arguments. This patch corrects the mistake.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > compile tested only.
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c
> > index d079f9a..da19bdf 100644
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c
> > @@ -4103,7 +4103,7 @@ static long pmcraid_chr_ioctl(
> > struct pmcraid_ioctl_header *hdr = NULL;
> > int retval = -ENOTTY;
> >
> > - hdr = kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL, sizeof(struct pmcraid_ioctl_header));
> > + hdr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pmcraid_ioctl_header), GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> > if (!hdr) {
> > pmcraid_err("faile to allocate memory for ioctl header\n");
> > --
> > 1.7.7
> >
> >
>
> James seems to be uninterested in picking up
> obvious and trivially correct patches.
>
I've been getting that impression as well..
For example:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next-history.git;a=commitdiff;h=2abe1b25e56b7c8e65f101fb22282dafeb5ec4ef
which I've been sumbitting numerous times over a long period of time
(these days akpm has picked it up and sends it on repeatedly, so I don't
really bother myself any more)...

> >From a year ago...
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/31/123
>
Ok, so you obviously got there first and your patch should be merged
rather than mine. I was not aware of that.

> James?
>
?

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