From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devres: zero the memory in devm_krealloc() if needed
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:14:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201026131427.GF4077@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201026122728.8522-1-brgl@bgdev.pl>
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 01:27:28PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>
> If we're returning the same pointer (when new size is smaller or equal
> to the old size) we need to check if the user wants the memory zeroed
> and memset() it manually if so.
Any use case? Because to me it sounds contradictory to the whole idea of [k]realloc().
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-29 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-26 12:27 [PATCH] devres: zero the memory in devm_krealloc() if needed Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-26 13:14 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2020-10-30 9:03 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-30 10:57 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-30 10:58 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-30 11:03 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-30 12:21 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
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