On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 08:33:46AM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> Remove casting the values returned by memory allocation functions like
> kmalloc, kzalloc, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc."
> Found by coccinelle spatch "api/alloc/alloc_cast.cocci"
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <tho...@m3y3r.de>
> ---
>
> diff -u -p a/sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c b/sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c
> --- a/sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c
> @@ -1218,7 +1218,7 @@ static int _snd_emu10k1_audigy_init_efx(
> if (!icode)
> return err;
>
> - icode->gpr_map = (u_int32_t __user *) kcalloc(512 + 256 + 256 + 2 *
> 1024,
> + icode->gpr_map = kcalloc(512 + 256 + 256 + 2 * 1024,
> sizeof(u_int32_t),
> GFP_KERNEL);
And _this_ is a wonderful example of the reasons why that kind of
patches is bloody bad. The code you've caught is very obviously smelly -
kcalloc() does *NOT* return a userland pointer. You are whitewashing it;
a major "something weird is going on here" sign is gone (something weird
in that case is hopefully a set_fs(KERNEL_DS) somewhere nearby, and it
is asking for careful review).
FWIW, any patches of that sort anywhere near VFS are very much not
welcome.
