Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] UCC Ether driver: kmalloc casting cleanups
From: Ahmed S. Darwish <hidden>
Date: 2007-01-08 04:54:58
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Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:12:28AM +0800, Li Yang-r58472 wrote:
NACK about the 2 clean-ups above. Cast from pointer to integer is required here.
Hi, here's the modified patch. A patch to switch kmalloc to kzalloc and clean some redundant kmalloc casts. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <redacted> ---
diff --git a/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c b/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c
index 8243150..0f58f5f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c@@ -2926,10 +2926,9 @@ static int ucc_geth_startup(struct ucc_geth_private *ugeth) /* Init Tx bds */ for (j = 0; j < ug_info->numQueuesTx; j++) { /* Setup the skbuff rings */ - ugeth->tx_skbuff[j] = - (struct sk_buff **)kmalloc(sizeof(struct sk_buff *) * - ugeth->ug_info->bdRingLenTx[j], - GFP_KERNEL); + ugeth->tx_skbuff[j] = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sk_buff *) * + ugeth->ug_info->bdRingLenTx[j], + GFP_KERNEL); if (ugeth->tx_skbuff[j] == NULL) { ugeth_err("%s: Could not allocate tx_skbuff",
@@ -2958,10 +2957,9 @@ static int ucc_geth_startup(struct ucc_geth_private *ugeth) /* Init Rx bds */ for (j = 0; j < ug_info->numQueuesRx; j++) { /* Setup the skbuff rings */ - ugeth->rx_skbuff[j] = - (struct sk_buff **)kmalloc(sizeof(struct sk_buff *) * - ugeth->ug_info->bdRingLenRx[j], - GFP_KERNEL); + ugeth->rx_skbuff[j] = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sk_buff *) * + ugeth->ug_info->bdRingLenRx[j], + GFP_KERNEL); if (ugeth->rx_skbuff[j] == NULL) { ugeth_err("%s: Could not allocate rx_skbuff",
@@ -3450,19 +3448,16 @@ static int ucc_geth_startup(struct ucc_geth_private *ugeth) * resource. * This shadow structure keeps a copy of what was done so that the * allocated resources can be released when the channel is freed. + * *p_init_enet_param_shadow is zeroed by kzalloc */ - if (!(ugeth->p_init_enet_param_shadow = - (struct ucc_geth_init_pram *) kmalloc(sizeof(struct ucc_geth_init_pram), - GFP_KERNEL))) { + if (!(ugeth->p_init_enet_param_shadow = + kzalloc(sizeof(struct ucc_geth_init_pram), GFP_KERNEL))) { ugeth_err ("%s: Can not allocate memory for" " p_UccInitEnetParamShadows.", __FUNCTION__); ucc_geth_memclean(ugeth); return -ENOMEM; } - /* Zero out *p_init_enet_param_shadow */ - memset((char *)ugeth->p_init_enet_param_shadow, - 0, sizeof(struct ucc_geth_init_pram)); /* Fill shadow InitEnet command parameter structure */
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Ahmed S. Darwish
http://darwish-07.blogspot.com