linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: alteon: Avoid some useless memset

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Message-Id: <20200717.125813.340020422201202187.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:58:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, jes@...ined-monkey.org, linux-acenic@...site.dk,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: alteon: Avoid some useless memset

From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 22:52:42 +0200

> Avoid a memset after a call to 'dma_alloc_coherent()'.
> This is useless since
> commit 518a2f1925c3 ("dma-mapping: zero memory returned from dma_alloc_*")
> 
> Replace a kmalloc+memset with a corresponding kzalloc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>

Applied.