Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/fnic/fnic_trace.c: Use vzalloc

[James Bottomley]

On Tue, 2018-11-13 at 16:53 +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On 13/11/2018 16:44, John Garry wrote:
> > On 13/11/2018 15:08, Sabyasachi Gupta wrote:
[...]
> > > -    fnic_trace_buf_p = (unsigned long)vmalloc((trace_max_pages *
> > > PAGE_SIZE));
> > > +    fnic_trace_buf_p = (unsigned long)vzalloc((trace_max_pages *
> > > +                                PAGE_SIZE));
> > 
> > If you remove the extra brackets in vzalloc() argument then you may
> > not spill onto the next line.
> 
> And remove the unnecessary cast. vzalloc() (just like vmalloc())
> returns a void*, so no reason to cast it.

This is incorrect advice: there's no need to cast it to other *pointer*
types, but if you cast it to a non-pointer type (which this is doing)
the compiler will complain if there is no explicit cast.

James