linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] LANDLOCK: use kmem_cache for landlock

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Message-ID: <dfa6ddcb-9a2d-49ac-90b7-bb30b23e32c4@moroto.mountain>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:39:14 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiw0110@...il.com>
Cc: alison.schofield@...el.com, paul@...l-moore.com, mic@...ikod.net,
	fabio.maria.de.francesco@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, outreachy@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LANDLOCK: use kmem_cache for landlock_object

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 04:55:57AM +0530, Ayush Tiwari wrote:
> Use kmem_cache replace kzalloc() calls with kmem_cache_zalloc() for
> struct landlock_object and update the related dependencies.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiw0110@...il.com>

Is there some advantage to doing this?  You need to re-write the commit
message to give us some clue why you are doing this.

regards,
dan carpenter