Subject: Re: tipc: Delete error messages for failed memory allocations in three functions

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 09:39:37 -0700

On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 18:23 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > tipc_subseq_alloc does a kcalloc (memset to 0),
> > half of which is immediately overwritten.
> > 
> > In other words, don't just blindly remove stuff,
> > understand what it does and improve it.
> 
> Do you suggest another specific source code transformation pattern here?

For the somewhat hard-of-thinking,
something like krealloc would do nicely.