[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 1/1] ixgbe: use kzalloc for allocating one thing

Maninder Singh maninder1.s at samsung.com
Fri Jun 19 04:07:55 UTC 2015


Use kzalloc rather than kcalloc(1..

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:

// <smpl>
@@
@@

- kcalloc(1,
+ kzalloc(
          ...)
// </smpl>

and removing checkpatch below CHECK:
CHECK: Prefer kzalloc(sizeof(*fwd_adapter)...) over 
kzalloc(sizeof(struct ixgbe_fwd_adapter)...)

Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s at samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Vaneet Narang <v.narang at samsung.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 3bf2f3c..3f58757 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -8134,7 +8134,7 @@ static void *ixgbe_fwd_add(struct net_device *pdev, struct net_device *vdev)
 	    (adapter->num_rx_pools > IXGBE_MAX_MACVLANS))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
 
-	fwd_adapter = kcalloc(1, sizeof(struct ixgbe_fwd_adapter), GFP_KERNEL);
+	fwd_adapter = kzalloc(sizeof(*fwd_adapter), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!fwd_adapter)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
-- 
1.7.1



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