[PATCH] It's easier to use kcalloc for allocating arrays. While at it also remove useless casting value.

Vlad Dogaru ddvlad at herebedragons.ro
Tue Sep 16 23:58:01 EEST 2014


On 9/16/2014 11:42 PM, Matei Oprea wrote:
> From: Matei Oprea <matei at crunchbang.(none)>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matei Oprea <eu at opreamatei.ro>
> Cc: ROSEdu Kernel Community <firefly at lists.rosedu.org>

The subject (i.e. shortlog) is too long and does not include a subsystem
name.  Try something like:

scsi: lpfc: use kcalloc instead of kzalloc

And mention removal of the typecast below.

Also fix your git send-email settings (I think) to remove the "From:
Matei Oprea <matei at crunchbang.(none)>" bit.

> ---
>  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
> index a5769a9..aac9a90 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
> @@ -4854,8 +4854,7 @@ lpfc_sli_driver_resource_setup(struct lpfc_hba *phba)
>  	}
>  
>  	if (!phba->sli.ring)
> -		phba->sli.ring = (struct lpfc_sli_ring *)
> -			kzalloc(LPFC_SLI3_MAX_RING *
> +		phba->sli.ring = kcalloc(LPFC_SLI3_MAX_RING,
>  			sizeof(struct lpfc_sli_ring), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!phba->sli.ring)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> 



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