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Date:   Tue, 29 Dec 2020 07:54:47 -0600
From:   Alex Elder <elder@...e.org>
To:     Zheng Yongjun <zhengyongjun3@...wei.com>, rmfrfs@...il.com,
        johan@...nel.org, elder@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] staging: greybus: light: Use kzalloc for allocating
 only one thing

On 12/29/20 7:50 AM, Zheng Yongjun wrote:
> Use kzalloc rather than kcalloc(1,...)
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> @@
> 
> - kcalloc(1,
> + kzalloc(
>            ...)
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Yongjun <zhengyongjun3@...wei.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/greybus/light.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> index d2672b65c3f4..d227382fca20 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ static int channel_attr_groups_set(struct gb_channel *channel,
>   	channel->attrs = kcalloc(size + 1, sizeof(*channel->attrs), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!channel->attrs)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
> -	channel->attr_group = kcalloc(1, sizeof(*channel->attr_group),
> +	channel->attr_group = kzalloc(sizeof(*channel->attr_group),
>   				      GFP_KERNEL);

Looks good but that shortens the line enough to avoid a line wrap.
Please send v2 with GFP_KERNEL on the same line as the kzalloc()
call.

					-Alex

>   	if (!channel->attr_group)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
>