On Sun, 20 Sep 2020, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-09-20 at 09:15 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > 'sgl' is zeroed a few lines below in 'sg_init_table()'. There is no need to
> > clear it twice.
> >
> > Remove the redundant initialization.
>
> I didn't look very thoroughly, but there are at least
> a few more of these with kcalloc and kzalloc like
>
> block/bsg-lib.c- size_t sz = (sizeof(struct scatterlist) * req->nr_phys_segments);
> block/bsg-lib.c-
> block/bsg-lib.c- BUG_ON(!req->nr_phys_segments);
> block/bsg-lib.c-
> block/bsg-lib.c- buf->sg_list = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL);
> block/bsg-lib.c- if (!buf->sg_list)
> block/bsg-lib.c- return -ENOMEM;
> block/bsg-lib.c: sg_init_table(buf->sg_list, req->nr_phys_segments);
> ---
> drivers/target/target_core_rd.c- sg = kcalloc(sg_per_table + chain_entry, sizeof(*sg),
> drivers/target/target_core_rd.c- GFP_KERNEL);
> drivers/target/target_core_rd.c- if (!sg)
> drivers/target/target_core_rd.c- return -ENOMEM;
> drivers/target/target_core_rd.c-
> drivers/target/target_core_rd.c: sg_init_table(sg, sg_per_table + chain_entry);
> ---
> net/rds/rdma.c- sg = kcalloc(nents, sizeof(*sg), GFP_KERNEL);
> net/rds/rdma.c- if (!sg) {
> net/rds/rdma.c- ret = -ENOMEM;
> net/rds/rdma.c- goto out;
> net/rds/rdma.c- }
> net/rds/rdma.c- WARN_ON(!nents);
> net/rds/rdma.c: sg_init_table(sg, nents);
I found 16 occurrences in the following files:
net/rds/rdma.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/efa/efa_verbs.c
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c
drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_nodeqp.c
block/bsg-lib.c
drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
drivers/spi/spi-topcliff-pch.c
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/frwr_ops.c
drivers/dma/imx-dma.c
drivers/pci/p2pdma.c
drivers/dma/sh/shdma-base.c
drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
drivers/media/common/saa7146/saa7146_core.c
drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c
julia
