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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Oct 24 2011 - 19:07:09 EST


On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 00:57 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 00:38 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > BTW: What about a checkpatch.pl rule to detect such a misuse of kmalloc()?
> > We could grep for "k[mzc]alloc(GFP_".
> >
> I like that idea. That's exactely how I find these; by doing
> egrep -R "[kv][mcz]alloc *\( *GFP_"
> on the source tree.
> Might as well be in checkpatch.pl

Well, also from a year ago...

https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/31/121




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