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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Masaru Nomura <massa.nomura@gmail.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, andreas.dilger@intel.com,
	oleg.drokin@intel.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] staging: lustre: lnet: socklnd: Clean up memset(...)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 10:50:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537B1766.1090808@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400434032.21382.3.camel@joe-AO725>



Am 18.05.2014 19:27, schrieb Joe Perches:
> On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 18:19 +0100, Masaru Nomura wrote:
>> Remove prohibited space and fix line over 80 characters of
>> memset(...) to meet kernel coding style.
> []
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
> []
>> @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ ksocknal_create_peer(ksock_peer_t **peerp, lnet_ni_t *ni, lnet_process_id_t id)
>>  	if (peer == NULL)
>>  		return -ENOMEM;
>>  
>> -	memset (peer, 0, sizeof (*peer));       /* NULL pointers/clear flags etc */
>> +	memset(peer, 0, sizeof(*peer));     /* NULL pointers/clear flags etc */
> 
> It looks like this memset is unnecessary
> as it's already zeroed by LIBCFS_ALLOC->
> LIBCFS_ALLOC_GFP->LIBCFS_ALLOC_POST->memset.
> 
> It seems as if all these ALLOC macros could
> use quite a bit of cleaning/sorting out.
> 

for a start,
some kind soul could replace the malloc()/memset() with zalloc().

re,
 wh






  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-18 17:19 [PATCH 0/5] staging: lustre: lnet: klnds: Fix coding style in socklnd.c Masaru Nomura
2014-05-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 1/5] staging: lustre: lnet: socklnd: Remove prohibited space Masaru Nomura
2014-05-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] staging: lustre: lnet: socklnd: Clean up memset(...) Masaru Nomura
2014-05-18 17:27   ` Joe Perches
2014-05-18 19:12     ` Masaru Nomura
2014-05-20  8:50     ` walter harms [this message]
2014-05-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] staging: lustre: lnet: socklnd: Clean up CDEBUG(...) Masaru Nomura
2014-05-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] staging: lustre: lnet: socklnd: Clean up ksocknal_get_peer_info(...) Masaru Nomura
2014-05-18 17:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] staging: lustre: lnet: socklnd: Clean up ksocknal_create_conn(...) Masaru Nomura
2014-05-18 20:33 ` [PATCH 0/5] staging: lustre: lnet: klnds: Fix coding style in socklnd.c Dan Carpenter

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