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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] net: mv643xx_eth: use kzalloc
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 09:00:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1441814431.17219.46.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441787886-7214-4-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 10:38 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> The double memset is a little ugly; using kzalloc avoids it altogether.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
[]
> @@ -1859,14 +1859,11 @@ oom:
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	mc_spec = kmalloc(0x200, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	mc_spec = kzalloc(0x200, GFP_ATOMIC);
>  	if (mc_spec == NULL)
>  		goto oom;
>  	mc_other = mc_spec + (0x100 >> 2);

This sure looks wrong as it sets a pointer
to unallocated memory.

> -	memset(mc_spec, 0, 0x100);
> -	memset(mc_other, 0, 0x100);

So this does a memset of random memory.

	for (i = 0; i < 0x100; i += 4) {
		wrl(mp, SPECIAL_MCAST_TABLE(mp->port_num) + i, mc_spec[i >> 2]);
		wrl(mp, OTHER_MCAST_TABLE(mp->port_num) + i, mc_other[i >> 2]);
	}



  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-09 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-09  8:38 [PATCH 0/4] net: a few kzalloc/memset cleanups Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-09  8:38 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: cavium: liquidio: use kzalloc in setup_glist() Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-09  8:38 ` [PATCH 2/4] net: jme: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc+memset Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-09  8:38 ` [PATCH 3/4] net: mv643xx_eth: use kzalloc Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-09 16:00   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-09-09 18:34     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-09 18:45       ` Joe Perches
2015-09-09 23:25         ` Joe Perches
2015-09-09  8:38 ` [PATCH 4/4] net: qlcnic: delete redundant memsets Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-10  0:06 ` [PATCH 0/4] net: a few kzalloc/memset cleanups David Miller
2015-09-10  0:40   ` [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Neaten mv643xx_eth_program_multicast_filter Joe Perches
2015-09-15 19:49     ` David Miller

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