The patch titled bonding: Replace kmalloc() + memset() pairs with the appropriate kzalloc() calls has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is bonding-replace-kmalloc-memset-pairs-with-the-appropriate-kzalloc-calls.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: bonding: Replace kmalloc() + memset() pairs with the appropriate kzalloc() calls From: "Joe Jin" <lkmaillist@xxxxxxxxx> Replace kmalloc() + memset() pairs with the appropriate kzalloc() calls in the bonding driver. Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <lkmaillist@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 6 ++---- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c~bonding-replace-kmalloc-memset-pairs-with-the-appropriate-kzalloc-calls drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c~bonding-replace-kmalloc-memset-pairs-with-the-appropriate-kzalloc-calls +++ a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static int tlb_initialize(struct bonding spin_lock_init(&(bond_info->tx_hashtbl_lock)); - new_hashtbl = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + new_hashtbl = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!new_hashtbl) { printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME ": %s: Error: Failed to allocate TLB hash table\n", @@ -195,8 +195,6 @@ static int tlb_initialize(struct bonding bond_info->tx_hashtbl = new_hashtbl; - memset(bond_info->tx_hashtbl, 0, size); - for (i = 0; i < TLB_HASH_TABLE_SIZE; i++) { tlb_init_table_entry(&bond_info->tx_hashtbl[i], 1); } @@ -788,7 +786,7 @@ static int rlb_initialize(struct bonding spin_lock_init(&(bond_info->rx_hashtbl_lock)); - new_hashtbl = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + new_hashtbl = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!new_hashtbl) { printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME ": %s: Error: Failed to allocate RLB hash table\n", diff -puN drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c~bonding-replace-kmalloc-memset-pairs-with-the-appropriate-kzalloc-calls drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c~bonding-replace-kmalloc-memset-pairs-with-the-appropriate-kzalloc-calls +++ a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -1343,14 +1343,12 @@ int bond_enslave(struct net_device *bond "inaccurate.\n", bond_dev->name, slave_dev->name); } - new_slave = kmalloc(sizeof(struct slave), GFP_KERNEL); + new_slave = kzalloc(sizeof(struct slave), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new_slave) { res = -ENOMEM; goto err_undo_flags; } - memset(new_slave, 0, sizeof(struct slave)); - /* save slave's original flags before calling * netdev_set_master and dev_open */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lkmaillist@xxxxxxxxx are bonding-replace-kmalloc-memset-pairs-with-the-appropriate-kzalloc-calls.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html