RE: [PATCH] qed: fix kzalloc-simple.cocci warnings
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From: Yuval Mintz <hidden>
Date: 2016-09-01 07:52:05
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drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c:1230:13-20: WARNING: kzalloc should be used for dcbx_info, instead of kmalloc/memset drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c:1192:13-20: WARNING: kzalloc should be used for dcbx_info, instead of kmalloc/memset Use kzalloc rather than kmalloc followed by memset with 0 This considers some simple cases that are common and easy to validate Note in particular that there are no ...s in the rule, so all of the matched code has to be contiguous Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci CC: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <sudarsana.kalluru@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <redacted>
This looks fine; But what's the right process here - Dave - do we need to re-post this with the the right 'destination' in title [net/net-next]? Or is it good as-is? In case of latter, Acked-by: Yuval Mintz <redacted> One question the automated script - Can't it [relative] easily be upgraded to also have 'Fixes:' as part of its message?