Hi Mark, On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Mark Brown <broo...@kernel.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 04:38:20PM +0530, Manish Badarkhe wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > >> >> + buf = devm_kzalloc(dev, size, gfp); > >> > If this is really necessary, please use devm_kmalloc > >> devm_kzalloc is always better giving zeroed memory locations. >> Is there any reason not to go for it? > > If the allocated memory is going to be immediately overwritten with the > string then it shouldn't make any difference if it was zeroed when > allocated.
Thank you for clarification. I will go ahead to make it devm_kmalloc and post a new version of patch. Regards Manish Badarkhe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
