netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipvs: remove unnecessary space

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Message-ID: <20190715082652.nwwugofsnaihlrjg@salvia>
Date:   Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:26:52 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     yangxingwu <xingwu.yang@...il.com>
Cc:     wensong@...ux-vs.org, horms@...ge.net.au, ja@....bg,
        kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu, fw@...len.de, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, joe@...ches.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipvs: remove unnecessary space

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 09:57:03AM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:07:21PM +0800, yangxingwu wrote:
> > this patch removes the extra space and use bitmap_zalloc instead
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: yangxingwu <xingwu.yang@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_mh.c | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_mh.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_mh.c
> > index 94d9d34..3229867 100644
> > --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_mh.c
> > +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_mh.c
> > @@ -174,8 +174,7 @@ static int ip_vs_mh_populate(struct ip_vs_mh_state *s,
> >  		return 0;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	table =  kcalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(IP_VS_MH_TAB_SIZE),
> > -			 sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	table = bitmap_zalloc(IP_VS_MH_TAB_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> By doing:
> 
>         git grep "=  " ...
> 
> on the netfilter folders, I see more of these, it would be good if you
> fix them at once or, probably, you want to use coccinelle for this.

If patch subject is "remove unnecessary space" then just remove
unnecessary spaces in the patch, otherwise I suggest you rename this
to "ipvs: use bitmap_zalloc()" or such, since the space removal here
is irrelevant.