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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Cc: Lion Vollnhals <lion.vollnhals@web.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:27:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4326B799.70408@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509130841.34104.vda@ilport.com.ua>

Denis Vlasenko napsal(a):

>On Tuesday 13 September 2005 01:47, Lion Vollnhals wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tuesday 13 September 2005 00:10, Lion Vollnhals wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>This patch against 2.6.13-mm3 replaces malloc and memset with kzalloc in
>>>drivers/base/class.c . 
>>>      
>>>
>>The following patch converts further kmalllocs and memsets in drivers/base/* to kzallocs.
>>
>>Please apply.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Lion Vollnhals <webmaster@schiggl.de>
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
>>diff -Nurp 2.6.13-mm3/drivers/base/platform.c 2.6.13-mm3-changed/drivers/base/platform.c
>>--- 2.6.13-mm3/drivers/base/platform.c	2005-09-12 23:42:47.000000000 +0200
>>+++ 2.6.13-mm3-changed/drivers/base/platform.c	2005-09-13 00:23:43.000000000 +0200
>>@@ -225,13 +225,12 @@ struct platform_device *platform_device_
>> 	struct platform_object *pobj;
>> 	int retval;
>> 
>>-	pobj = kmalloc(sizeof(struct platform_object) + sizeof(struct resource) * num, GFP_KERNEL);
>>+	pobj = kzalloc(sizeof(struct platform_object) + sizeof(struct resource) * num, GFP_KERNEL);
>> 	if (!pobj) {
>> 		retval = -ENOMEM;
>> 		goto error;
>> 	}
>> 
>>-	memset(pobj, 0, sizeof(*pobj));
>>    
>>
>
>Was this a bug or did you just introduced one?
>  
>
Yes, this was a bug.

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Jiri Slaby         www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-13 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-12 22:10 [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset Lion Vollnhals
2005-09-12 22:47 ` Lion Vollnhals
2005-09-13  5:41   ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-09-13 11:27     ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2005-09-12 22:58 ` Jiri Slaby
2005-09-13  4:43   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-13  5:33     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-13  6:42       ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-13  7:02         ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-09-13  7:42           ` Nikita Danilov
2005-09-13 16:31             ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-14  5:02             ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-09-14  9:58               ` Nikita Danilov
2005-09-13 23:28         ` Paul Jackson
2005-09-14  9:33           ` Bernd Petrovitsch

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