On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 10:49 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > > Avoid an unnecessary allocation/free by using stack instead. > > > > Signed-off-by; Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> > > Hm. > > > + char propname[9 + sizeof(int) * 2 + 4] = "pinctrl-"; > > If you absolutely want to do this you have to > > #define PINCTRL_PREFIX "pinctrl-" > > char propname[strlen(PINCTRL_PREFIX) + sizeof(int)*2 + 4] = PINCTRL_PREFIX; > > Then add a comment above stating why you add 4.
No, I don't really. > > This allocation seems unnecessary and the kasprintf isn't > > checked for non-null, so maybe this is better. > > Another option would be to just add a NULL-check? This is > definately not on a performance-critical path. It's a defect not to check the kasprintf return before writing through it. I submitted what I think appropriate. Fix it as you choose. Or not. cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/