Re: [PATCH] net/qrtr: replaced useless kzalloc with kmalloc in qrtr_tun_write_iter()

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Feb 04 2021 - 13:55:34 EST


On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 10:51:59 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 15:02:30 +0600 Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov wrote:
> > Replaced kzalloc() with kmalloc(), there is no need for zeroed-out
> > memory for simple void *kbuf.
>
> There is no need for zeroed-out memory because it's immediately
> overwritten by copy_from_iter...

Also if you don't mind please wait a week until the fixes get merged
back into net-next and then repost. Otherwise this patch will not apply
cleanly. (Fixes are merged into a different tree than cleanups)

> > Signed-off-by: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov <snovitoll@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > net/qrtr/tun.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/qrtr/tun.c b/net/qrtr/tun.c
> > index b238c40a9984..9b607c7614de 100644
> > --- a/net/qrtr/tun.c
> > +++ b/net/qrtr/tun.c
> > @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static ssize_t qrtr_tun_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
> > if (len > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > - kbuf = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> > + kbuf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (!kbuf)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> >
>