The patch titled
proc: vmcore - use kzalloc in get_new_element
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
proc-vmcore-use-kzalloc-in-get_new_element.patch
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Subject: proc: vmcore - use kzalloc in get_new_element
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
Instead of kmalloc+memset better use straight kzalloc
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/vmcore.c | 7 +------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/proc/vmcore.c~proc-vmcore-use-kzalloc-in-get_new_element fs/proc/vmcore.c
--- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c~proc-vmcore-use-kzalloc-in-get_new_element
+++ a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -166,12 +166,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc
static struct vmcore* __init get_new_element(void)
{
- struct vmcore *p;
-
- p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (p)
- memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
- return p;
+ return kzalloc(sizeof(struct vmcore), GFP_KERNEL);
}
static u64 __init get_vmcore_size_elf64(char *elfptr)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
proc-vmcore-use-kzalloc-in-get_new_element.patch
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