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[v4,4/4] serial: qcom_geni: Comment use of devm_krealloc rather than devm_krealloc_array

Message ID 20230509094942.396150-5-james.clark@arm.com
State New
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Series [v4,1/4] devres: Provide krealloc_array | expand

Commit Message

James Clark May 9, 2023, 9:49 a.m. UTC 
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@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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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);