Re: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset

[Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>]

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?
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