From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julia Lawall Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 11:26:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 13/14] misc: mic: drop double zeroing Message-Id: <1600601186-7420-14-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> List-Id: References: <1600601186-7420-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> In-Reply-To: <1600601186-7420-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Sudeep Dutt Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Ashutosh Dixit , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org sg_init_table zeroes its first argument, so the allocation of that argument doesn't have to. the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression x,n,flags; @@ x = - kcalloc + kmalloc_array (n,sizeof(struct scatterlist),flags) ... sg_init_table(x,n) // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_nodeqp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_nodeqp.c b/drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_nodeqp.c --- a/drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_nodeqp.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_nodeqp.c @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ scif_p2p_setsg(phys_addr_t pa, int page_ struct page *page; int i; - sg = kcalloc(page_cnt, sizeof(struct scatterlist), GFP_KERNEL); + sg = kmalloc_array(page_cnt, sizeof(struct scatterlist), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sg) return NULL; sg_init_table(sg, page_cnt);