From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Use kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression x,size,flags; statement S; @@ -x = kmalloc(size,flags); +x = kzalloc(size,flags); if (x == NULL) S -memset(x, 0, size); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c b/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c --- a/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c +++ b/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c @@ -2608,10 +2608,9 @@ static int mv643xx_eth_shared_probe(stru goto out; ret = -ENOMEM; - msp = kmalloc(sizeof(*msp), GFP_KERNEL); + msp = kzalloc(sizeof(*msp), GFP_KERNEL); if (msp == NULL) goto out; - memset(msp, 0, sizeof(*msp)); msp->base = ioremap(res->start, res->end - res->start + 1); if (msp->base == NULL) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
