Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: maestro3: using vmalloc_array() to handle the code

From: Philipp Stanner
Date: Fri Oct 24 2025 - 07:33:51 EST


On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 18:55 +0800, tanze wrote:
> Change array_size() to vmalloc_array(), due to vmalloc_array()
> being optimized better, using fewer instructions, and handles
> overflow more concisely.
>
> Signed-off-by: tanze <tanze@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Philipp Stanner <phasta@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Hi, Philipp Stanner,
>
> Thank you for your suggestions.
> I have made revisions according to your requirements.
>
> Regarding the issue of my full name, thank you for your
> attention to detail. Since I am in China, I use the name
> "tanze" on many occasions, and the code I previously submitted
> to the upstream community was also under this name.
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>  - Fix some issues in the commit message.
>
> v1:
>  - patch: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251022092339.551438-1-tanze@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Best regards,
> Ze Tan

Well, if your name is Ze Tan you could use that :)

Don't get me wrong, it's not a huge issue; tanze just might raise an
eyebrow here and there and have people wonder whether that's a
pseudonym or nickname or sth.

What's fine for Takashi is fine for me.

Regards
Philipp

> ---
>  sound/pci/maestro3.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/pci/maestro3.c b/sound/pci/maestro3.c
> index bddf47a1f263..3353980d5cd8 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/maestro3.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/maestro3.c
> @@ -2571,9 +2571,9 @@ snd_m3_create(struct snd_card *card, struct pci_dev *pci,
>  
>   if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PM_SLEEP)) {
>   chip->suspend_mem =
> - vmalloc(array_size(sizeof(u16),
> -    REV_B_CODE_MEMORY_LENGTH +
> -    REV_B_DATA_MEMORY_LENGTH));
> + vmalloc_array(REV_B_CODE_MEMORY_LENGTH +
> +       REV_B_DATA_MEMORY_LENGTH,
> +       sizeof(u16));
>   if (!chip->suspend_mem)
>   dev_warn(card->dev, "can't allocate apm buffer\n");
>   }