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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scsi: elx: efct: remove unnecessary memset in efct_io
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Le 30/04/2022 à 09:48, Finn Thain a écrit :
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2022, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>
>> Le 18/03/2022 à 15:52, Wan Jiabing a écrit :
>>> io->sgl is allocated by kzalloc(). The memory is set to zero.
>>> It is unnecessary to call memset again.
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Nitpick: this kzalloc() should be a kcalloc() to avoid an open-coded
>> multiplication when computing the size to allocate.
>>
>
> Seems like kcalloc() conversion could be a separate patch. Perhaps it
> could be done everywhere using a coccinelle script.

Sure it can and I guess that many coccinelle script already exist for it.

I only replied here because of a comment from Joe Perches on the same
patch a few month ago (see [1] and [2])

So Wan Jiabing or anyone else, if you want to go one step further, just
feel free to propose it.

CJ


[1]:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/4208b3d08a677601c73889f78dd25e5c9f056a86.camel@perches.com/

[2]:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/9be7d5beb437583f8d975d168ac5c3e32fb6e465.1639158677.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr/

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