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* [PATCH] s2io bogus memset
@ 2007-01-23 12:25 Al Viro
  2007-01-23 21:26 ` Jeff Garzik
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Al Viro @ 2007-01-23 12:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: torvalds; +Cc: jgarzik, linux-kernel


memset() after kmalloc() on size * 8 would better be on size * 8, not
just size; fixed by switching to kcalloc() - it's more idiomatic anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/s2io.c b/drivers/net/s2io.c
--- a/drivers/net/s2io.c
+++ b/drivers/net/s2io.c
@@ -554,10 +554,9 @@ static int init_shared_mem(struct s2io_n
 		}
 	}
 
-	nic->ufo_in_band_v = kmalloc((sizeof(u64) * size), GFP_KERNEL);
+	nic->ufo_in_band_v = kcalloc(size, sizeof(u64), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!nic->ufo_in_band_v)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	memset(nic->ufo_in_band_v, 0, size);
 
 	/* Allocation and initialization of RXDs in Rings */
 	size = 0;

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