linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/6] mailbox: bcm-flexrm-mailbox: Cocci spatch "pool

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <1505974468535-1383415532-1-diffsplit-thomas@m3y3r.de>
Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2017 08:15:26 +0200
From:   Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:     jassisinghbrar@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] mailbox: bcm-flexrm-mailbox: Cocci spatch
 "pool_zalloc-simple"

Use *_pool_zalloc rather than *_pool_alloc followed by memset with 0.
Found by coccinelle spatch "api/alloc/pool_zalloc-simple.cocci"

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
---

diff -u -p a/drivers/mailbox/bcm-flexrm-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/bcm-flexrm-mailbox.c
--- a/drivers/mailbox/bcm-flexrm-mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/bcm-flexrm-mailbox.c
@@ -1258,14 +1258,13 @@ static int flexrm_startup(struct mbox_ch
 	}
 
 	/* Allocate completion memory */
-	ring->cmpl_base = dma_pool_alloc(ring->mbox->cmpl_pool,
-					 GFP_KERNEL, &ring->cmpl_dma_base);
+	ring->cmpl_base = dma_pool_zalloc(ring->mbox->cmpl_pool, GFP_KERNEL,
+					  &ring->cmpl_dma_base);
 	if (!ring->cmpl_base) {
 		dev_err(ring->mbox->dev, "can't allocate completion memory\n");
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto fail_free_bd_memory;
 	}
-	memset(ring->cmpl_base, 0, RING_CMPL_SIZE);
 
 	/* Request IRQ */
 	if (ring->irq == UINT_MAX) {