The patch titled
Subject: aoe: cleanup an allocation a bit
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
aoe-kernel-thread-handles-i-o-completions-for-simple-locking-fix.patch
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: aoe: cleanup an allocation a bit
We changed this recently so we can just use kzalloc() here instead of
kcalloc(1, ...). Kernel style prefers sizeof(*t) over sizeof *t. The
kfree(t) is a no-op now as well so that can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ed Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c~aoe-kernel-thread-handles-i-o-completions-for-simple-locking-fix drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c~aoe-kernel-thread-handles-i-o-completions-for-simple-locking-fix
+++ a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
@@ -1156,9 +1156,8 @@ addtgt(struct aoedev *d, char *addr, ulo
"aoe: device addtgt failure; too many targets\n");
return NULL;
}
- t = kcalloc(1, sizeof *t, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ t = kzalloc(sizeof(*t), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!t) {
- kfree(t);
printk(KERN_INFO "aoe: cannot allocate memory to add target\n");
return NULL;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
drivers-scsi-iprc-missing-unlock-before-a-return.patch
drivers-scsi-iprc-remove-an-unneeded-check.patch
aoe-kernel-thread-handles-i-o-completions-for-simple-locking-fix.patch
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