[PATCH 3/4] libnvdimm: eliminate two unnecessary zero initializations in badrange.c

From: Zhen Lei
Date: Thu Aug 20 2020 - 10:31:03 EST


Currently, the "struct badrange_entry" has three members: start, length,
list. In append_badrange_entry(), "start" and "length" will be assigned
later, and "list" does not need to be initialized before calling
list_add_tail(). That means, the kzalloc() in badrange_add() or
alloc_and_append_badrange_entry() can be replaced with kmalloc(), because
the zero initialization is not required.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvdimm/badrange.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/badrange.c b/drivers/nvdimm/badrange.c
index 7f78b659057902d..13145001c52ff39 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/badrange.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/badrange.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static int alloc_and_append_badrange_entry(struct badrange *badrange,
{
struct badrange_entry *bre;

- bre = kzalloc(sizeof(*bre), flags);
+ bre = kmalloc(sizeof(*bre), flags);
if (!bre)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ int badrange_add(struct badrange *badrange, u64 addr, u64 length)
{
struct badrange_entry *bre, *bre_new;

- bre_new = kzalloc(sizeof(*bre_new), GFP_KERNEL);
+ bre_new = kmalloc(sizeof(*bre_new), GFP_KERNEL);

spin_lock(&badrange->lock);

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1.8.3