Re: [PATCH] net/core: use xx_zalloc instead xx_alloc and memset

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 16:15 +0800, Tian Tao wrote:
> use kmem_cache_zalloc instead kmem_cache_alloc and memset.
[]
> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
[]
> @@ -313,12 +313,10 @@ struct sk_buff *__build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size)
>  {
>  	struct sk_buff *skb;
>  
> -	skb = kmem_cache_alloc(skbuff_head_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	skb = kmem_cache_zalloc(skbuff_head_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
>  	if (unlikely(!skb))
>  		return NULL;
>  
> -	memset(skb, 0, offsetof(struct sk_buff, tail));
> -
>  	return __build_skb_around(skb, data, frag_size);
>  }
>  
> 
> @@ -6170,12 +6168,10 @@ static void *skb_ext_get_ptr(struct skb_ext *ext, enum skb_ext_id id)
>   */
>  struct skb_ext *__skb_ext_alloc(gfp_t flags)
>  {
> -	struct skb_ext *new = kmem_cache_alloc(skbuff_ext_cache, flags);
> +	struct skb_ext *new = kmem_cache_zalloc(skbuff_ext_cache, flags);
>  
> -	if (new) {
> -		memset(new->offset, 0, sizeof(new->offset));
> +	if (new)
>  		refcount_set(&new->refcnt, 1);
> -	}
>  
>  	return new;
>  }

I think it'd be nicer to use the same form for both of these functions.
This could be:

struct skb_ext *__skb_ext_alloc(gfp_t flags)
{
	struct skb_ext *new;

	new = kmem_cache_zalloc(skbbuff_ext_cache, flags);
	if (unlikely(!new))
		return NULL;

	refcount_set(&new->refcnt, 1);

	return new;
}