Re: [PATCH 2/5] staging: lustre: lnet: socklnd: Clean up memset(...)

walter harms
2014-05-20T08:50:46Z

Am 18.05.2014 19:27, schrieb Joe Perches:
> On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 18:19 +0100, Masaru Nomura wrote:
>> Remove prohibited space and fix line over 80 characters of
>> memset(...) to meet kernel coding style.
> []
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
> []
>> @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ ksocknal_create_peer(ksock_peer_t **peerp, lnet_ni_t *ni, lnet_process_id_t id)
>> if (peer = NULL)
>> return -ENOMEM;
>>
>> - memset (peer, 0, sizeof (*peer)); /* NULL pointers/clear flags etc */
>> + memset(peer, 0, sizeof(*peer)); /* NULL pointers/clear flags etc */
>
> It looks like this memset is unnecessary
> as it's already zeroed by LIBCFS_ALLOC->
> LIBCFS_ALLOC_GFP->LIBCFS_ALLOC_POST->memset.
>
> It seems as if all these ALLOC macros could
> use quite a bit of cleaning/sorting out.
>

for a start,
some kind soul could replace the malloc()/memset() with zalloc().

re,
wh