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/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c --- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c @@ -356,12 +356,10 @@ static struct request_context *ezusb_all { struct request_context *ctx; - ctx = kmalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_ATOMIC); + ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!ctx) return NULL; - memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(*ctx)); - ctx->buf = kmalloc(BULK_BUF_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!ctx->buf) { kfree(ctx); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html