From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Silvio F <silvio.fricke@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, daeseok.youn@gmail.com,
silvio@port1024.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: kmalloc/memset to kzalloc conversation
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:17:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1395173845.2812.82.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395173271-13190-2-git-send-email-silvio.fricke@gmail.com>
On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 21:07 +0100, Silvio F wrote:
> This patch solves the Coccinelle warning: "kzalloc should be used
> instead of kmalloc/memset"
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/include/uisutils.h b/drivers/staging/unisys/include/uisutils.h
[]
> @@ -190,10 +190,7 @@ struct chaninfo {
> }
>
> #define ALLOC_CMDRSP(cmdrsp) { \
> - cmdrsp = kmalloc(SIZEOF_CMDRSP, GFP_ATOMIC); \
> - if (cmdrsp != NULL) { \
> - memset(cmdrsp, 0, SIZEOF_CMDRSP); \
> - } \
> + cmdrsp = kzalloc(SIZEOF_CMDRSP, GFP_ATOMIC); \
> }
It'd be nicer to get rid of this macro altogether
and substitute kzalloc in the 3 places it's used.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-18 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-12 10:37 [PATCH] staging: unisys: use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset 0 Daeseok Youn
2014-03-17 21:41 ` Greg KH
2014-03-18 0:26 ` DaeSeok Youn
2014-03-18 0:37 ` Greg KH
2014-03-18 8:11 ` DaeSeok Youn
2014-03-19 0:03 ` DaeSeok Youn
2014-03-19 0:58 ` Greg KH
2014-03-19 1:04 ` DaeSeok Youn
2014-03-19 2:31 ` Greg KH
2014-03-19 4:32 ` DaeSeok Youn
2014-03-18 13:00 ` Ken Cox
2014-03-19 0:09 ` DaeSeok Youn
2014-03-19 0:58 ` Greg KH
2014-03-18 20:07 ` [patch][wip] staging: unisys: kmalloc/memset move to kzalloc Silvio F
2014-03-18 20:07 ` [PATCH] staging: unisys: kmalloc/memset to kzalloc conversation Silvio F
2014-03-18 20:17 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-03-18 20:41 ` Greg KH
2014-03-18 20:41 ` Greg KH
2014-03-18 20:46 ` Silvio F.
2014-03-18 21:13 ` [patch][wip] staging: unisys: kmalloc/memset move to kzalloc Silvio F
2014-03-18 21:13 ` [PATCH] staging: unisys: kmalloc/memset to kzalloc conversation Silvio F
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