The patch titled Subject: mm-mempool-do-not-allow-atomic-resizing-checkpatch-fixes has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-mempool-do-not-allow-atomic-resizing-checkpatch-fixes.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-mempool-do-not-allow-atomic-resizing-checkpatch-fixes.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-mempool-do-not-allow-atomic-resizing-checkpatch-fixes.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-mempool-do-not-allow-atomic-resizing-checkpatch-fixes WARNING: Prefer kmalloc_array over kmalloc with multiply #111: FILE: mm/mempool.c:149: + new_elements = kmalloc(new_min_nr * sizeof(*new_elements), GFP_KERNEL); total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 81 lines checked ./patches/mm-mempool-do-not-allow-atomic-resizing.patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives, please report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mempool.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/mempool.c~mm-mempool-do-not-allow-atomic-resizing-checkpatch-fixes mm/mempool.c --- a/mm/mempool.c~mm-mempool-do-not-allow-atomic-resizing-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/mm/mempool.c @@ -146,7 +146,8 @@ int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags); /* Grow the pool */ - new_elements = kmalloc(new_min_nr * sizeof(*new_elements), GFP_KERNEL); + new_elements = kmalloc_array(new_min_nr, sizeof(*new_elements), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!new_elements) return -ENOMEM; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are arch-alpha-kernel-systblss-remove-debug-check.patch i-need-old-gcc.patch mm-fix-anon_vma-degree-underflow-in-anon_vma-endless-growing-prevention.patch mm.patch mm-cma-release-trigger-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-cma-allocation-trigger-fix.patch mm-compaction-enhance-compaction-finish-condition-fix.patch page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-hide-per-cpu-lists-in-output-of-show_mem-fix.patch mm-clarify-__gfp_nofail-deprecation-status-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-change-vunmap-to-tear-down-huge-kva-mappings-fix.patch mm-mempool-do-not-allow-atomic-resizing-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-vmscan-fix-the-page-state-calculation-in-too_many_isolated.patch x86-add-pmd_-for-thp-fix.patch sparc-add-pmd_-for-thp-fix.patch zram-add-dynamic-device-add-remove-functionality-fix.patch zram-introduce-automatic-device_id-generation-fix.patch zsmalloc-support-compaction-fix.patch kernel-conditionally-support-non-root-users-groups-and-capabilities-checkpatch-fixes.patch lib-vsprintf-add-%pcnr-format-specifiers-for-clocks-fix.patch lib-find__bit-reimplementation-fix.patch binfmt_misc-simplify-entry_status-fix.patch rtc-add-abracon-abx80x-driver-fix.patch fs-fat-remove-unnecessary-includes-fix.patch kconfig-use-macros-which-are-already-defined-fix.patch linux-next.patch lib-kconfig-fix-up-have_arch_bitreverse-help-text.patch oprofile-reduce-mmap_sem-hold-for-mm-exe_file-fix.patch tomoyo-reduce-mmap_sem-hold-for-mm-exe_file-checkpatch-fixes.patch do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug-fix.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html