Re: tty's use of file_list_lock and file_move

[Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> [...]
>  extern struct tty_driver *ptm_driver;	/* Unix98 pty masters; for /dev/ptmx */
> @@ -158,21 +157,21 @@ static struct tty_struct *alloc_tty_stru
>  {
>  	struct tty_struct *tty;
>  
> -	tty = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tty_struct), GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (tty)
> -		memset(tty, 0, sizeof(struct tty_struct));
> +	tty = kmalloc(sizeof(*tty), GFP_KERNEL);
              ^^^^^^^
kzalloc?

I don't know this code very well, so you might be actually changing the 
initialization here. On the other hand, this might be just a simple bug...

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