Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] serial: qcom_geni: Comment use of devm_krealloc rather than devm_krealloc_array

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:57:09 +0000
James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Now that devm_krealloc_array is available, add a comment justifying not
> changing this occurrence to avoid any future auto fixups.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230318173402.20a4f60d@jic23-huawei/
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>
LGTM

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
> index 28fbc927a546..8ae1fb7c2636 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
> @@ -1055,6 +1055,11 @@ static int setup_fifos(struct qcom_geni_serial_port *port)
>  		(port->tx_fifo_depth * port->tx_fifo_width) / BITS_PER_BYTE;
>  
>  	if (port->rx_buf && (old_rx_fifo_depth != port->rx_fifo_depth) && port->rx_fifo_depth) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Use krealloc rather than krealloc_array because rx_buf is
> +		 * accessed as 1 byte entries as well as 4 byte entries so it's
> +		 * not necessarily an array.
> +		 */
>  		port->rx_buf = devm_krealloc(uport->dev, port->rx_buf,
>  					     port->rx_fifo_depth * sizeof(u32),
>  					     GFP_KERNEL);