Re: [PATCH v3] fs, dlm: don't do pointless NULL check, use kzallocand fix order of arguments

From: David Teigland
Date: Mon Jul 11 2011 - 11:02:54 EST


On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:54:31PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> In fs/dlm/lock.c in the dlm_scan_waiters() function there are 3 small
> issues:
>
> 1) There's no need to test the return value of the allocation and do a
> memset if is succeedes. Just use kzalloc() to obtain zeroed memory.
>
> 2) Since kfree() handles NULL pointers gracefully, the test of
> 'warned' against NULL before the kfree() after the loop is completely
> pointless. Remove it.
>
> 3) The arguments to kmalloc() (now kzalloc()) were swapped. Thanks to
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert for pointing this out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, I pushed this and a patch for the other swapped kmalloc to the
next branch.
Dave

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