From: Robert Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@gmail.com>
To: Robert Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] net: seeq: replace kmalloc / memset(,0) with kzalloc
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:48:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190228004800.GA26378@bobby.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ff7bcf7b8db8daa129703e5f7b632825f25c766.1551246708.git.bobbyeshleman@gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:09:54PM -0800, Robert Eshleman wrote:
> This patch reduces a call to memset(,0) by replacing
> a kmalloc call with a kzalloc call.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/ether3.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/ether3.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/ether3.c
> index d1bb73bf9914..7456cf08a48f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/ether3.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/ether3.c
> @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ ether3_addr(char *addr, struct expansion_card *ec)
> static int
> ether3_ramtest(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char byte)
> {
> - unsigned char *buffer = kmalloc(RX_END, GFP_KERNEL);
> + unsigned char *buffer = kzalloc(RX_END, GFP_KERNEL);
> int i,ret = 0;
> int max_errors = 4;
> int bad = -1;
> @@ -231,7 +231,6 @@ ether3_ramtest(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char byte)
> if (!buffer)
> return 1;
>
> - memset(buffer, byte, RX_END);
Byte is not zero, so the intent of this patch does not apply here.
Dropping this from the patch set in v2.
> ether3_setbuffer(dev, buffer_write, 0);
> ether3_writebuffer(dev, buffer, TX_END);
> ether3_setbuffer(dev, buffer_write, RX_START);
> --
> 2.20.1
>
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2019-02-27 6:09 ` [PATCH 7/8] net: seeq: replace kmalloc / memset(,0) with kzalloc Robert Eshleman
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