The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scriptcoccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci. Signed-off-by: Madhusudhanan Ravindran <mravindran04@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c index 8c260ee..d0b6f3f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c +++ b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c @@ -1342,11 +1342,10 @@ static int __init lynxfb_setup(char * options) pr_info("options:%s\n",options); len = strlen(options) + 1; - g_settings = kmalloc(len,GFP_KERNEL); + g_settings = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); if(!g_settings) return -ENOMEM; - memset(g_settings,0,len); tmp = g_settings; /* Notes: -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel