Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5: Use kzalloc for allocating only one thing

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Dec 29 2020 - 11:18:44 EST


On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 21:53 +0800, Zheng Yongjun wrote:
> Use kzalloc rather than kcalloc(1,...)
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_action.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_action.c
[]
> @@ -1782,7 +1782,7 @@ static int dr_action_create_modify_action(struct mlx5dr_domain *dmn,
>   if (!chunk)
>   return -ENOMEM;
>  
>
> - hw_actions = kcalloc(1, max_hw_actions * DR_MODIFY_ACTION_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> + hw_actions = kzalloc(max_hw_actions * DR_MODIFY_ACTION_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);

Perhaps instead:

hw_actions = kcalloc(max_hw_actions, DR_MODIFY_ACTION_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);