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Date:      Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:09:47 +0100
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: git: 419822b372f5 - main - libgeom(3): Use calloc instead of malloc and bzero.
Message-ID:  <a55f8a81-7897-6f6d-68fe-de41a733dce2@selasky.org>
In-Reply-To: <4eaba9f4-7cd6-5af3-d745-97932501a2fc@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <202203110942.22B9guNt032463@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <4eaba9f4-7cd6-5af3-d745-97932501a2fc@FreeBSD.org>

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On 3/11/22 11:57, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I grepped out tree and there are many other places, which could be 
> converted to using calloc. Is there anything to watch out for when 
> converting malloc and memset call pairs to calloc?
> 

Hi,

If you have a tool for it combined with a review, should be pretty 
straight forward.

I don't see any issues converting malloc, memset/bzero sequences, as 
long as they zero the full memory area allocated.

Maybe in contributed code, you need to push changes upstream first.

--HPS



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