Re: gianfar: Less function calls in gfar_ethflow_to_filer_table() after error detection

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>> * Return directly if a memory allocation failed at the beginning.
>>
>> * Adjust jump targets according to the Linux coding style convention.
>>
>> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> Is this really better?
> 
> Perhaps this particular static analysis isn't too useful.

The opinions are still evolving for such a kind of search pattern.


> Why not just allocate once and assign a second pointer?
> 
> 	local_rqfpr = kmalloc_array(2 * (MAX_FILER_IDX + 1),
> 				    sizeof(unsigned int), GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!local_rqfpr)
> 		goto err;
> 
> 	local_rqfcr = &local_rqfpr[MAX_FILER_IDX + 1];

Do you suggest to use only one array (instead of two as before) here?

Regards,
Markus
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