Re: [PATCH v1] tty: n_tty: use kvzalloc/kvfree for line discipline data

Greg KH <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-serial,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <2026081744-vision-coherent-8b62@gregkh>
On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 09:55:26PM +0800, Xin Chen wrote:
> Note: checkpatch warns "Prefer kvzalloc_obj over kvzalloc with
> sizeof", but kvzalloc_obj() was introduced after v6.6 and is not
> available in the target kernel, so kvzalloc(sizeof(*ldata),
> GFP_KERNEL) is used intentionally.

What do you mean "target kernel"?  This is for 7.3-final, right?

confused,

greg k-h
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