From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Meyer Subject: [PATCH] net: Use kzalloc rather than kmalloc followed by memset with 0 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100 Message-ID: <1321569820.1624.263.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from www17.your-server.de ([213.133.104.17]:48424 "EHLO www17.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756805Ab1KRJ1X (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:27:23 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This considers some simple cases that are common and easy to validate Note in particular that there are no ...s in the rule, so all of the matched code has to be contiguous The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer --- diff -u -p a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c 2011-11-07 19:37:59.173455664 +0100 +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c 2011-11-08 09:32:00.426428212 +0100 @@ -4382,12 +4382,10 @@ static void ksz_update_timer(struct ksz_ */ static int ksz_alloc_soft_desc(struct ksz_desc_info *desc_info, int transmit) { - desc_info->ring = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ksz_desc) * desc_info->alloc, - GFP_KERNEL); + desc_info->ring = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ksz_desc) * desc_info->alloc, + GFP_KERNEL); if (!desc_info->ring) return 1; - memset((void *) desc_info->ring, 0, - sizeof(struct ksz_desc) * desc_info->alloc); hw_init_desc(desc_info, transmit); return 0; }