Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx: replace kmalloc/memset by kzalloc

From: Michael Opdenacker
Date: Thu Oct 16 2014 - 15:30:50 EST


Hi Joe,

On 10/16/2014 09:28 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 21:14 +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
>
>
> /* Allocate SCB resources */
> - scb_data->scbarray = kmalloc(sizeof(struct scb) * AHC_SCB_MAX_ALLOC, GFP_ATOMIC);
> + scb_data->scbarray = kzalloc(sizeof(struct scb) * AHC_SCB_MAX_ALLOC,
> + GFP_ATOMIC);
> if (scb_data->scbarray == NULL)
> return (ENOMEM);
> - memset(scb_data->scbarray, 0, sizeof(struct scb) * AHC_SCB_MAX_ALLOC);
>
> /* Determine the number of hardware SCBs and initialize them */
>
> Probably better as kcalloc.

Hey, well spotted! Thanks for your review. I will post a new version soon.

Cheers,

Michael.

>


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