vzalloc combines vmalloc and memset 0. The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows: @@ type T; T *d; expression e; statement S; @@ d = - vmalloc + vzalloc (...); if (!d) S - memset(d, 0, sizeof(T)); Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-core.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-core.c b/drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-core.c index 6e995ef..47def73 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-core.c @@ -1569,10 +1569,9 @@ static int ddb_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id) if (pci_enable_device(pdev) < 0) return -ENODEV; - dev = vmalloc(sizeof(struct ddb)); + dev = vzalloc(sizeof(struct ddb)); if (dev == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - memset(dev, 0, sizeof(struct ddb)); dev->pdev = pdev; pci_set_drvdata(pdev, dev); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html