Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] dmaengine: mediatek: fix zalloc-simple.cocci warnings

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Tue Feb 13 2018 - 02:07:12 EST




On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Vinod Koul wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 03:55:58PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >
> > > > - ring->txd = dma_alloc_coherent(hsdma2dev(hsdma),
> > > > - pc->sz_ring, &ring->tphys,
> > > > - GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_ZERO);
> > > > + ring->txd = dma_zalloc_coherent(hsdma2dev(hsdma), pc->sz_ring,
> > > > + &ring->tphys, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > > > if (!ring->txd)
> > > > return -ENOMEM;
> > > >
> > > > - memset(ring->txd, 0, pc->sz_ring);
> > >
> > > This should be folded back..
> >
> > Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by "folded back".
>
> Since the original patch is also up for review in this series, it doesn't
> help much to add a change and fix on top in a series. The fix should be
> folded back into the original commit. IIRC Fengguang's bot also recommends
> so..

Sure, no problem. Thanks. (I thought you meant folding or unfolding of a
function definition).

julia