linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 -next] staging: greybus: light: Use kzalloc for allocating only one thing

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Message-ID: <20201230101300.sqouqv3ulez6mzmy@arch-thunder.localdomain>
Date:   Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:13:00 +0000
From:   Rui Miguel Silva <rmfrfs@...il.com>
To:     Zheng Yongjun <zhengyongjun3@...wei.com>
Cc:     johan@...nel.org, elder@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -next] staging: greybus: light: Use kzalloc for
 allocating only one thing

Hi Yongjun,
many thanks for your patch.

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 09:37:06AM +0800, 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>

Like Alex said, LGTM also.

Reviewed-by: Rui Miguel Silva <rmfrfs@...il.com>

------
Cheers,
     Rui
> ---
>  drivers/staging/greybus/light.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> index d2672b65c3f4..87d36948c610 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> @@ -290,8 +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),
> -				      GFP_KERNEL);
> +	channel->attr_group = kzalloc(sizeof(*channel->attr_group), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!channel->attr_group)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	channel->attr_groups = kcalloc(2, sizeof(*channel->attr_groups),
> -- 
> 2.22.0
>