This considers some simple cases that are common and easy to validate Note in particular that there are no ...s in the rule, so all of the matched code has to be contiguous The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c --- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c 2011-11-07 19:38:00.160137318 +0100 +++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c 2011-11-08 09:35:34.632578608 +0100 @@ -465,12 +465,10 @@ static int cdc_ncm_bind(struct usbnet *d int temp; u8 iface_no; - ctx = kmalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL); + ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL); if (ctx == NULL) return -ENODEV; - memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(*ctx)); - init_timer(&ctx->tx_timer); spin_lock_init(&ctx->mtx); ctx->netdev = dev->net; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html