netdev - Re: [PATCH 07/14] RDS: drop double zeroing

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Date:   Sun, 20 Sep 2020 19:09:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr
Cc:     santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/14] RDS: drop double zeroing

From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:26:19 +0200

> sg_init_table zeroes its first argument, so the allocation of that argument
> doesn't have to.
> 
> the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,n,flags;
> @@
> 
> x = 
> - kcalloc
> + kmalloc_array
>   (n,sizeof(*x),flags)
> ...
> sg_init_table(x,n)
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>

Applied.