linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] dmaengine: at_hdmac: Substitute kzalloc with kmalloc

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Date:   Mon, 3 Feb 2020 09:24:27 +0100
From:   Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...rochip.com>
To:     Tudor Ambarus - M18064 <Tudor.Ambarus@...rochip.com>
CC:     "dan.j.williams@...el.com" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "vkoul@...nel.org" <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        "dmaengine@...r.kernel.org" <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] dmaengine: at_hdmac: Substitute kzalloc with
 kmalloc

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 02:03:02PM +0000, Tudor Ambarus - M18064 wrote:
> From: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...rochip.com>
> 
> All members of the structure are initialized below in the function,
> there is no need to use kzalloc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...rochip.com>

Hi Tudor,

It sounds good for me. Thanks for the cleanup and deadlock fixes.

For the whole set of patches:
Acked-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...rochip.com>

Ludovic

> ---
>  drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c b/drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c
> index 672c73b4a2d4..cad6dcd9cfb5 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c
> @@ -1671,7 +1671,7 @@ static struct dma_chan *at_dma_xlate(struct of_phandle_args *dma_spec,
>  	dma_cap_zero(mask);
>  	dma_cap_set(DMA_SLAVE, mask);
>  
> -	atslave = kzalloc(sizeof(*atslave), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	atslave = kmalloc(sizeof(*atslave), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!atslave)
>  		return NULL;
>  
> -- 
> 2.23.0