linux-kernel - [PATCH 07/14] RDS: drop double zeroing

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Date:   Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:26:19 +0200
From:   Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 07/14] RDS: drop double zeroing

sg_init_table zeroes its first argument, so the allocation of that argument
doesn't have to.

the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression x,n,flags;
@@

x = 
- kcalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (n,sizeof(*x),flags)
...
sg_init_table(x,n)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>

---
 net/rds/rdma.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -u -p a/net/rds/rdma.c b/net/rds/rdma.c
--- a/net/rds/rdma.c
+++ b/net/rds/rdma.c
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static int __rds_rdma_map(struct rds_soc
 		goto out;
 	} else {
 		nents = ret;
-		sg = kcalloc(nents, sizeof(*sg), GFP_KERNEL);
+		sg = kmalloc_array(nents, sizeof(*sg), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!sg) {
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out;