Re: x86-ksysfs: Use kmalloc_array() in create_setup_data_nodes()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Sep 07 2016 - 12:37:13 EST


On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 09:23 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Fixing these kmalloc calls would be a nice thing to clean up
> everywhere.

Dubious as gcc cannot currently optimize known small fixed size
allocations with alloc_array and will always perform the
multiplication.

Also the style of sizeof(*ptr) is not always as clear, obvious
nor as easy to grep as sizeof(type).