Re: [PATCH] staging: vme_user: use kmalloc_obj instead of kmalloc

[Samyak Bambole]

On 2/14/26 9:32 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:21:57PM +0530, Samyak wrote:
> > From: Samyak Bambole <samyak.bambole07@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Replace kmalloc(sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL) calls with kmalloc_obj(*ptr,
> > GFP_KERNEL)
> >
> > This addresses scripts/checkpatch.pl warnings and follows the preffered
> > allocation pattern.
>
> This is a new thing, right?  Are we going to be doing this for all
> staging drivers going forward?

Yeah I'm pretty sure it is relatively new, it was documented in 
Documentation/process/deprecated.rst.
I would be happy to make this replacement in other staging drivers if 
that would be useful

> > Changes:
> > - vme.c: 12 replacements
> > - vme_fake.c: 3 replacements
> > - vme_tsi148.c: 7 replacements
>
> There's no need for these lines in the changelog text, sorry.  Can you
> fix that up and resend a v2?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Thanks for the feedback, I'll make the modifications and send a v2.

Thanks,
Samyak Bambole