On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 2:34 PM Péter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/07/2022 15:30, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 02:13:14PM +0200, Cezary Rojewski wrote: ... > > It seems you are missing the (1). The code has checks for the case where you > > can do get number upfront, it would just require two passes, but it's nothing > > in comparison of heave realloc(). > > > > unsigned int *tokens; > > char *p; > > int num; > > > > p = get_options(str, 0, &num); > > if (num == 0) > > // No numbers in the string! > > > > tokens = kcalloc(num + 1, sizeof(*tokens), GFP_KERNEL); > > if (!tokens) > > return -ENOMEM; > > > > p = get_oprions(str, num, &tokens); > > if (*p) > > // String was parsed only partially! > > // assuming it's not a fatal error > > > > return tokens; > This diff is tested and works: Thanks, Peter! But at least you can memove() to avoid second allocation. ideally to refactor that the result of get_options is consumed as is (it may be casted to struct tokens { int n; u32 v[]; }) ... > Could be made nicer with some brain work put to it, we need strict u32 within the IPC message for the array... True, it needs to be thought through. But I guess you got the idea of how to use existing library routines. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko