On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 20:41 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > > p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...); > > > > > > The alternative form where struct name is spelled out hurts > > > readability and > > > introduces an opportunity for a bug when the pointer variable type > > > is changed > > > but the corresponding sizeof that is passed to a memory allocator > > > is not. > > > > before patches are upstreamed? > > I imagine that a corresponding source code analysis variant could be > applied > in more cases if sufficient acceptance could be achieved. So, then instead of still keeping people busy with this noise you better start doing something like CI integration with that for *new* code? I'm pretty sure you may also exercise your achievements on drivers/staging where it would be honored. Have you talked to Fengguang (0-day LKP)? Have you talked to Arnd (I think he is related to kernel-ci)? -- Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Intel Finland Oy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
