Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] fs/ntfs3: Use kernel alloc wrappers and fix warnings

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Aug 18 2021 - 01:23:45 EST


On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 04:06:46AM +0300, Kari Argillander wrote:
> In ntfs3 driver there is allocation made like this ntfs_malloc().
> Patch 2/3 will converter these to kernel ones like kmalloc(). After I
> did this then checkpatch raise warnings about array allocations so I
> fix these in patch 3/3.
>
> I also notice when I made patch that there is broken utf8 char so I
> wanted first fix that because it raised some warning in my editor and
> did not want to "break" patch 2/3. So patch 1/3 address that. I did
> try to apply this and it seem to work without issues.

So this mostly looks sensible, but I still haven't actually seen
the codebase this applies to posted anywhere as far as I can tell.