Use kzalloc rather than duplicating its implementation, which makes code simple and easy to understand. Signed-off-by: Haowen Bai <baihaowen@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c index 00ddeee123c2..9f84a6fde0c2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c @@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ static int ar5523_load_firmware(struct usb_device *dev) return -ENOENT; } - txblock = kmalloc(sizeof(*txblock), GFP_KERNEL); + txblock = kzalloc(sizeof(*txblock), GFP_KERNEL); if (!txblock) goto out; @@ -1512,7 +1512,6 @@ static int ar5523_load_firmware(struct usb_device *dev) if (!fwbuf) goto out_free_rxblock; - memset(txblock, 0, sizeof(struct ar5523_fwblock)); txblock->flags = cpu_to_be32(AR5523_WRITE_BLOCK); txblock->total = cpu_to_be32(fw->size); -- 2.7.4