From: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] aoe: cleanup an allocation a bit
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 20:25:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F3A3DC24-1380-447B-AA94-A5FADB8D6E43@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120908095921.GD608@elgon.mountain>
Looks OK to me, thanks.
On Sep 7, 2012, at 11:59 PM, "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> We changed this recently so we can just use kzalloc() here instead of
> kcalloc(1, ...). Kernel style prefers sizeof(*t) over sizeof *t. The
> kfree(t) is a no-op now as well so that can be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> Only applies to linux-next.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
> index 5461faa..c0adbbd 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
> @@ -1255,9 +1255,8 @@ addtgt(struct aoedev *d, char *addr, ulong nframes)
> "aoe: device addtgt failure; too many targets\n");
> return NULL;
> }
> - t = kcalloc(1, sizeof *t, GFP_ATOMIC);
> + t = kzalloc(sizeof(*t), GFP_ATOMIC);
> if (!t) {
> - kfree(t);
> printk(KERN_INFO "aoe: cannot allocate memory to add target\n");
> return NULL;
> }
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-09 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-08 9:59 [patch] aoe: cleanup an allocation a bit Dan Carpenter
2012-09-09 1:25 ` Ed Cashin [this message]
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