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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Straube <straube.linux@gmail.com>,
	Mamta Shukla <mamtashukla555@gmail.com>,
	Nishka Dasgupta <nishkadg.linux@gmail.com>,
	Emanuel Bennici <benniciemanuel78@gmail.com>,
	Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@gmail.com>,
	Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v2] staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: ioctl_linux: make use of kzalloc
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:57:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190618065753.GA15358@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190618014410.GA8505@hari-Inspiron-1545>

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 07:14:10AM +0530, Hariprasad Kelam wrote:
> kmalloc with memset can be replaced with kzalloc.

Yes, but did you audit the call-paths of this to ensure that GFP_KERNEL
is the correct value for kzalloc() here?  If so, please document that in
the changelog.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-18  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-18  1:44 [Patch v2] staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: ioctl_linux: make use of kzalloc Hariprasad Kelam
2019-06-18  6:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-06-18  8:55 ` Dan Carpenter

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