linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's

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Message-ID: <20130430063401.GJ9563@kernel.dk>
Date:	Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:34:01 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Philippe De Muyter <phdm@...qel.be>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	Panagiotis Issaris <takis@...aris.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's

On Mon, Apr 29 2013, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> In alloc_read_gpt_entries and alloc_read_gpt_header, the kzalloc'ated
> zones are either totally overwritten by the following read_lba call,
> or freed.  As kmalloc is cheaper than kzalloc, use kmalloc.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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