Re: perf/x86: Use kmalloc_array() in merge_attr()

[SF Markus Elfring]

>> * 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.
> 
> Why!?

How do you think about an information like the following from
the well-known script "checkpatch.pl"?

WARNING: Prefer kmalloc_array over kmalloc with multiply


Would you like to suggest any more constraints for this kind of
software refactoring?

Regards,
Markus