linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ksmbd: Remove a redundant zeroing of memory

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Date:   Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:27:52 +0900
From:   Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@...il.com>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc:     Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-cifs <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ksmbd: Remove a redundant zeroing of memory

Acked-by: Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@...il.com>

2022년 3월 23일 (수) 오전 5:29, Christophe JAILLET
<christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>님이 작성:
>
> fill_transform_hdr() already call memset(0) on its 1st argument, so there
> is no need to clear it explicitly before calling this function.
>
> Use kmalloc() instead of kzalloc() to save a few cycles.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> ---
> Alternatively, fill_transform_hdr() has only one caller. So its memset()
> could be removed instead and this kzalloc() left as is.
> ---
>  fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c b/fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c
> index bcb98109bac9..0e4f819e5859 100644
> --- a/fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c
> +++ b/fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c
> @@ -8434,7 +8434,7 @@ int smb3_encrypt_resp(struct ksmbd_work *work)
>         if (ARRAY_SIZE(iov) < rq_nvec)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>
> -       work->tr_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct smb2_transform_hdr) + 4, GFP_KERNEL);
> +       work->tr_buf = kmalloc(sizeof(struct smb2_transform_hdr) + 4, GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!work->tr_buf)
>                 return rc;
>
> --
> 2.32.0
>


-- 
Thanks,
Hyunchul