Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] xen_disk: avoid use of g_malloc0_n()

[Paul Durrant]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 12 September 2017 07:24
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Paul Durrant <address@hidden>; Stefano Stabellini
> <address@hidden>; xen-devel <address@hidden>
> Subject: [PATCH] xen_disk: avoid use of g_malloc0_n()
> 
> Prefer g_new() / g_new0() to be farther backwards compatible with older
> glib versions. As there's no point in zeroing the allocation here (the
> loop right afterwards fully initializes the memory), use the former.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <address@hidden>

> 
> --- a/hw/block/xen_disk.c
> +++ b/hw/block/xen_disk.c
> @@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ static int blk_connect(struct XenDevice
>          return -1;
>      }
> 
> -    domids = g_malloc0_n(blkdev->nr_ring_ref, sizeof(uint32_t));
> +    domids = g_new(uint32_t, blkdev->nr_ring_ref);
>      for (i = 0; i < blkdev->nr_ring_ref; i++) {
>          domids[i] = blkdev->xendev.dom;
>      }
> 
>