Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 1. Untested ;-) 2. Probably none of the static analyzers noticed, because of the amount of code in between the kmalloc() and the memset() diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c index 55ec44a..fa0999f 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c @@ -1114,7 +1114,7 @@ struct pci_bus * pci_create_bus(struct device *parent, if (!b) return NULL; - dev = kmalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL); + dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dev){ kfree(b); return NULL; @@ -1133,7 +1133,6 @@ struct pci_bus * pci_create_bus(struct device *parent, list_add_tail(&b->node, &pci_root_buses); up_write(&pci_bus_sem); - memset(dev, 0, sizeof(*dev)); dev->parent = parent; dev->release = pci_release_bus_bridge_dev; dev_set_name(dev, "pci%04x:%02x", pci_domain_nr(b), bus); Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html