linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] fs/btrfs/volumes.c: remove useless kzalloc

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Date:	Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:50:26 -0500
From:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] fs/btrfs/volumes.c: remove useless kzalloc

On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 22:45 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> The call to kzalloc is followed by a kmalloc whose result is stored in the
> same variable.
> 
> The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows:
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
> 

Now that is neat.  Thanks for the patch, I've queued it up here.

-chris


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