Re: [PATCH] qed: fix kzalloc-simple.cocci warnings
From: David Miller
Date: Thu Sep 01 2016 - 12:48:21 EST
From: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 07:37:13 +0000
>> drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c:1230:13-20: WARNING: kzalloc
>> should be used for dcbx_info, instead of kmalloc/memset
>> drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c:1192:13-20: WARNING: kzalloc
>> should be used for dcbx_info, instead of kmalloc/memset
>>
>>
>> Use kzalloc rather than kmalloc followed by memset with 0
>>
>> This considers some simple cases that are common and easy to validate Note in
>> particular that there are no ...s in the rule, so all of the matched code has to be
>> contiguous
>>
>> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci
>>
>> CC: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <sudarsana.kalluru@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This looks fine; But what's the right process here -
> Dave - do we need to re-post this with the the right 'destination' in title
> [net/net-next]? Or is it good as-is?
> In case of latter,
> Acked-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@xxxxxxxxxx>
I'll apply this as-is, thanks.