linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: mediatek: fix zalloc-simple.cocci warnings

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1802031740370.7608@hadrien>
Date:   Sat, 3 Feb 2018 17:41:28 +0100 (CET)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
cc:     Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>, vinod.koul@...el.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, robh+dt@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kbuild-all@...org, himanshujha199640@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: mediatek: fix zalloc-simple.cocci warnings



On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
>
>  Use zeroing allocator rather than allocator followed by memset with 0
>
> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/zalloc-simple.cocci
>
> Fixes: 73006a033ef0 ("dmaengine: mediatek: Add MediaTek High-Speed DMA controller for MT7622 and MT7623 SoC")
> CC: Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
> ---
>
> [auto build test WARNING on linus/master]
> [also build test WARNING on v4.15 next-20180202]
> [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to
> help improve the system]
>
> url:
> https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/sean-wang-mediatek-com/dt-bindings-dmaengine-Add-MediaTek-High-Speed-DMA-controller-bindings/20180203-203814
>
> Please take the patch only if it's a positive warning. Thanks!
>
>  mtk-hsdma.c |    6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-hsdma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-hsdma.c
> @@ -325,13 +325,11 @@ static int mtk_hsdma_alloc_pchan(struct
>  	 * and [MTK_DMA_SIZE ... 2 * MTK_DMA_SIZE - 1] is for RX ring.
>  	 */
>  	pc->sz_ring = 2 * MTK_DMA_SIZE * sizeof(*ring->txd);
> -	ring->txd = dma_alloc_coherent(hsdma2dev(hsdma),
> -				       pc->sz_ring, &ring->tphys,
> -				       GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_ZERO);
> +	ring->txd = dma_zalloc_coherent(hsdma2dev(hsdma), pc->sz_ring,
> +					&ring->tphys, GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_ZERO);

Actually, __GFP_ZERO could be dropped as well.

julia

>  	if (!ring->txd)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>
> -	memset(ring->txd, 0, pc->sz_ring);
>  	ring->rxd = &ring->txd[MTK_DMA_SIZE];
>  	ring->rphys = ring->tphys + MTK_DMA_SIZE * sizeof(*ring->txd);
>  	ring->cur_tptr = 0;
>