From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julia Lawall Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 20:07:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 18/20] drivers/video/matrox: Use kzalloc Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Petr Vandrovec , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall Use kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression x,size,flags; statement S; @@ -x = kmalloc(size,flags); +x = kzalloc(size,flags); if (x = NULL) S -memset(x, 0, size); // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.c b/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.c --- a/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.c +++ b/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.c @@ -2040,10 +2040,9 @@ static int matroxfb_probe(struct pci_dev return -1; } - minfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*minfo), GFP_KERNEL); + minfo = kzalloc(sizeof(*minfo), GFP_KERNEL); if (!minfo) return -1; - memset(minfo, 0, sizeof(*minfo)); minfo->pcidev = pdev; minfo->dead = 0;