* [PATCH] mtd: tests: consolidate kmalloc/memset 0 call to kzalloc
@ 2015-12-31 15:21 Nicholas Mc Guire
2016-01-06 23:18 ` Brian Norris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nicholas Mc Guire @ 2015-12-31 15:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Woodhouse
Cc: Brian Norris, Richard Weinberger, linux-mtd, linux-kernel,
Nicholas Mc Guire
This is an API consolidation only. The use of kmalloc + memset to 0
is equivalent to kzalloc.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
---
Found by coccinelle script (relaxed version of
scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci)
Patch was compile tested with: nhk8815_defconfig
(implies CONFIG_MTD_TESTS=m)
Patch is against linux-next (localversion-next is -next-20151231)
drivers/mtd/tests/pagetest.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/tests/pagetest.c b/drivers/mtd/tests/pagetest.c
index ba1890d..ff1e056 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/tests/pagetest.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/tests/pagetest.c
@@ -127,13 +127,12 @@ static int crosstest(void)
unsigned char *pp1, *pp2, *pp3, *pp4;
pr_info("crosstest\n");
- pp1 = kmalloc(pgsize * 4, GFP_KERNEL);
+ pp1 = kzalloc(pgsize * 4, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pp1)
return -ENOMEM;
pp2 = pp1 + pgsize;
pp3 = pp2 + pgsize;
pp4 = pp3 + pgsize;
- memset(pp1, 0, pgsize * 4);
addr0 = 0;
for (i = 0; i < ebcnt && bbt[i]; ++i)
--
2.1.4
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* Re: [PATCH] mtd: tests: consolidate kmalloc/memset 0 call to kzalloc
2015-12-31 15:21 [PATCH] mtd: tests: consolidate kmalloc/memset 0 call to kzalloc Nicholas Mc Guire
@ 2016-01-06 23:18 ` Brian Norris
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Brian Norris @ 2016-01-06 23:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nicholas Mc Guire
Cc: David Woodhouse, Richard Weinberger, linux-mtd, linux-kernel
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 04:21:22PM +0100, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> This is an API consolidation only. The use of kmalloc + memset to 0
> is equivalent to kzalloc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Applied to l2-mtd.git
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