linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 14/27] mtd: nand: use kzalloc instead of kmalloc and memset

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Message-Id: <20190628183633.18797-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:36:33 +0200
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@...il.com>
Cc:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@...nel.org>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/27] mtd: nand: use kzalloc instead of kmalloc and memset

On Fri, 2019-06-28 at 02:48:13 UTC, Fuqian Huang wrote:
> Replace kmalloc followed by a memset with kzalloc.
> 
> There is a recommendation to use zeroing allocator
> rather than allocator followed by memset with 0 in
> ./scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/zalloc-simple.cocci
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@...il.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next, thanks.

Miquel