On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 10:18:21PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > Otherwise, yes, please. We could build a coccinelle rule for > > > additional replacements... > > > > A potential semantic patch and the changes it generates are attached > > below. Himanshu Jha helped with its development. Working on this > > uncovered one bug, where the allocated array is too large, because the > > size provided for it was a structure size, but actually only pointers to > > that structure were to be stored in it. > > This is cool! Thanks for doing the coccinelle patch! Diffstat: > > 50 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 124 deletions(-) > > I find that pretty compelling. I'll repost the kvmalloc_struct patch > imminently. Thanks. So it's OK to replace kmalloc and kzalloc, even though they didn't previously consider vmalloc and even though kmalloc doesn't zero? There are a few other cases that use GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOWAIT, but I didn't transform those because the comment says that the flags should be GFP_KERNEL based. Should those be transformed too? julia
