On Thu, 25 Aug, at 11:40:45AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:34:03 +0200
>
> * A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
> indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
> Thus reuse the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> * Replace the specification of a data type by a pointer dereference
> to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
> the Linux coding style convention.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
> index 677e29e..311022a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ pgd_t * __init efi_call_phys_prolog(void)
> early_code_mapping_set_exec(1);
>
> n_pgds = DIV_ROUND_UP((max_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT), PGDIR_SIZE);
> - save_pgd = kmalloc(n_pgds * sizeof(pgd_t), GFP_KERNEL);
> + save_pgd = kmalloc_array(n_pgds, sizeof(*save_pgd), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> for (pgd = 0; pgd < n_pgds; pgd++) {
> save_pgd[pgd] = *pgd_offset_k(pgd * PGDIR_SIZE);
Thanks, applied with Paolo's Reviewed-by.
