Re: [PATCH] ATM-ENI: Use kmalloc_array() in eni_start()

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Sep 09 2016 - 22:27:00 EST


From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:40:06 +0200

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:20:17 +0200
>
> * 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.
>
> * Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
> to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
> the Linux coding style convention.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next.