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Date:	Wed, 09 Sep 2015 09:00:31 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] net: mv643xx_eth: use kzalloc

On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 10:38 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> The double memset is a little ugly; using kzalloc avoids it altogether.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
[]
> @@ -1859,14 +1859,11 @@ oom:
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	mc_spec = kmalloc(0x200, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	mc_spec = kzalloc(0x200, GFP_ATOMIC);
>  	if (mc_spec == NULL)
>  		goto oom;
>  	mc_other = mc_spec + (0x100 >> 2);

This sure looks wrong as it sets a pointer
to unallocated memory.

> -	memset(mc_spec, 0, 0x100);
> -	memset(mc_other, 0, 0x100);

So this does a memset of random memory.

	for (i = 0; i < 0x100; i += 4) {
		wrl(mp, SPECIAL_MCAST_TABLE(mp->port_num) + i, mc_spec[i >> 2]);
		wrl(mp, OTHER_MCAST_TABLE(mp->port_num) + i, mc_other[i >> 2]);
	}


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