4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> commit 46325371b230cc66c743925c930a17e7d0b8211e upstream. This is an API consolidation only. The use of kmalloc + memset to 0 is equivalent to kzalloc. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c +++ b/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c @@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ static int snd_pcm_oss_change_params(str return -EAGAIN; } else if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&runtime->oss.params_lock)) return -EINTR; - sw_params = kmalloc(sizeof(*sw_params), GFP_KERNEL); + sw_params = kzalloc(sizeof(*sw_params), GFP_KERNEL); params = kmalloc(sizeof(*params), GFP_KERNEL); sparams = kmalloc(sizeof(*sparams), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sw_params || !params || !sparams) { @@ -991,7 +991,6 @@ static int snd_pcm_oss_change_params(str goto failure; } - memset(sw_params, 0, sizeof(*sw_params)); if (runtime->oss.trigger) { sw_params->start_threshold = 1; } else {