[PATCH v4 4/4] serial: qcom_geni: Comment use of devm_krealloc rather than devm_krealloc_array
James Clark
james.clark at arm.com
Tue May 9 02:49:41 PDT 2023
Now that devm_krealloc_array is available, add a comment justifying not
changing this occurrence to avoid any future auto fixups.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230318173402.20a4f60d@jic23-huawei/
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
---
drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
index 08dc3e2a729c..3a6cf762449f 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
@@ -1053,6 +1053,11 @@ static int setup_fifos(struct qcom_geni_serial_port *port)
(port->tx_fifo_depth * port->tx_fifo_width) / BITS_PER_BYTE;
if (port->rx_buf && (old_rx_fifo_depth != port->rx_fifo_depth) && port->rx_fifo_depth) {
+ /*
+ * Use krealloc rather than krealloc_array because rx_buf is
+ * accessed as 1 byte entries as well as 4 byte entries so it's
+ * not necessarily an array.
+ */
port->rx_buf = devm_krealloc(uport->dev, port->rx_buf,
port->rx_fifo_depth * sizeof(u32),
GFP_KERNEL);
--
2.34.1
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