Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] block: Use g_new() & friends more

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 01.07.2014 um 11:06 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > This series is on top of Kevin's "block: Handle failure for
> > potentially large allocations".
> >
> > PATCH 1+2 convert some allocations.  While preparing them, I stumbled
> > over some useless casts, which led to PATCH 3.
> 
> Fell through the cracks despite Max's R-by, and now it doesn't apply
> anymore.  Pity, because it improves type safety and reduces
> vulnerability to integer overflows.

Whoops. Not sure if Stefan had any reasons not to merge it (the tree was
his for three weeks because I was away in mine), but it probably really
just fell through the cracks.

> Is this change wanted?  Unless I get a "yes" from a maintainer, I'll
> drop it.

Yes, I think it's a good change.

Kevin