Re: kmallocs with swapped parameters in fs/dlm/lock.c

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Jesper Juhl (jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > Hi David,
> >   Sparse spotted a couple of places in fs/dlm/lock.c where the size/flags
> > parameters to kmalloc got swapped:
> > 
> [...]
> > Jesper:
> >   I noticed in your patch:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/2/90
> > 
> > where you had done a kmalloc->kzalloc transform you kept the swap.
> > 
> > This looks like new code in 3.0rc so I don't think you could quite
> > call it a regression, but it should probably be fixed fairly quickly
> > I guess.
> > 
> D'oh, I completely overlooked that.

No problem.

> Thank you for noticing and letting me know. I've just submitted an updated 
> patch.

Great - it's probably worth you fixing the 2nd case in the same file
in the same patch, rather than just the one that you were changing
anyway?

Dave
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