On Fri, 2022-11-04 at 12:00 +0800, Liao Chang wrote:
> These array allocator family are sometimes misused with the first and
> second arguments switchted.
>
> Same issue with calloc, kvcalloc, kvmalloc_array etc.
>
> Bleat if sizeof is the first argument.
>
> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/11/3/668
You might use the -next version of checkpatch on this and find out
it's generally better to use lore links like:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
> Signed-off-by: Liao Chang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
cheers, Joe
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 1e5e66ae5a52..a9a9dc277cff 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -7128,7 +7128,7 @@ sub process {
> }
>
> # check for alloc argument mismatch
> - if ($line =~ /\b((?:devm_)?(?:kcalloc|kmalloc_array))\s*\(\s*sizeof\b/) {
> + if ($line =~ /\b((?:devm_)?((?:k|kv)?(calloc|malloc_array)(?:_node)?))\s*\(\s*sizeof\b/) {
> WARN("ALLOC_ARRAY_ARGS",
> "$1 uses number as first arg, sizeof is generally wrong\n" . $herecurr);
> }