Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

Jesper Juhl
2005-04-05T18:53:57Z

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Paulo Marques wrote:

> Hi,
> I noticed there are a number of places in the kernel that do:
> ptr = kmalloc(n * size, ...)
> if (!ptr)
> goto out;
> memset(ptr, 0, n * size);
> It seems that these could be replaced by:
> ptr = kcalloc(n, size, ...)
> if (!ptr)
> goto out;
or simply
if (!(ptr = kcalloc(n, size, ...)))
goto out;
and save an additional line of screen realestate while you are at it...

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Jesper Juhl