Re: [PATCH V2] octeon_ep: Remove unnecessary cast

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon May 23 2022 - 23:48:43 EST


On Tue, 2022-05-24 at 11:28 +0800, Haowen Bai wrote:
> ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c:161:18-40: WARNING:
> casting value returned by memory allocation function to (struct
> octep_rx_buffer *) is useless.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c
[]
> @@ -158,8 +158,7 @@ static int octep_setup_oq(struct octep_device *oct, int q_no)
> goto desc_dma_alloc_err;
> }
>
> - oq->buff_info = (struct octep_rx_buffer *)
> - vzalloc(oq->max_count * OCTEP_OQ_RECVBUF_SIZE);
> + oq->buff_info = vcalloc(oq->max_count, OCTEP_OQ_RECVBUF_SIZE);

trivia:

Perhaps better to remove the used once #define OCTEP_OQ_RECVBUF_SIZE
and use the more obvious

oq->buff_info = vcalloc(oq->max_count, sizeof(struct octep_rx_buffer));

though I believe the vcalloc may be better as kvcalloc as max_count isn't
particularly high and struct octep_rx_buffer is small.

Maybe:
---
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c | 8 ++++----
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.h | 2 --
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c
index d9ae0937d17a8..d6a0da61db449 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c
@@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ static int octep_setup_oq(struct octep_device *oct, int q_no)
goto desc_dma_alloc_err;
}

- oq->buff_info = (struct octep_rx_buffer *)
- vzalloc(oq->max_count * OCTEP_OQ_RECVBUF_SIZE);
+ oq->buff_info = kvcalloc(oq->max_count, sizeof(struct octep_rx_buffer),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!oq->buff_info)) {
dev_err(&oct->pdev->dev,
"Failed to allocate buffer info for OQ-%d\n", q_no);
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static int octep_setup_oq(struct octep_device *oct, int q_no)
return 0;

oq_fill_buff_err:
- vfree(oq->buff_info);
+ kvfree(oq->buff_info);
oq->buff_info = NULL;
buf_list_err:
dma_free_coherent(oq->dev, desc_ring_size,
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static int octep_free_oq(struct octep_oq *oq)

octep_oq_free_ring_buffers(oq);

- vfree(oq->buff_info);
+ kvfree(oq->buff_info);

if (oq->desc_ring)
dma_free_coherent(oq->dev,
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.h
index 782a24f27f3e0..34a32d95cd4b3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.h
@@ -67,8 +67,6 @@ struct octep_rx_buffer {
u64 len;
};

-#define OCTEP_OQ_RECVBUF_SIZE (sizeof(struct octep_rx_buffer))
-
/* Output Queue statistics. Each output queue has four stats fields. */
struct octep_oq_stats {
/* Number of packets received from the Device. */