From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933203Ab1KHTWJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:22:09 -0500 Received: from www17.your-server.de ([213.133.104.17]:42714 "EHLO www17.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932595Ab1KHTWH (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:22:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: Use kzalloc rather than kmalloc From: Thomas Meyer To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Larry Finger , wlanfae@realtek.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:20:14 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.3 (3.0.3-1.fc15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1320780021.8062.149.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Authenticated-Sender: thomas@m3y3r.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Thomas Meyer Use kzalloc rather than kmalloc followed by memset with 0 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. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer --- diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c 2011-11-07 19:38:11.783647197 +0100 +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c 2011-11-08 09:40:14.075968748 +0100 @@ -368,11 +368,10 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_encode(struct rtllib_d struct rtllib_crypt_data *new_crypt; /* take WEP into use */ - new_crypt = kmalloc(sizeof(struct rtllib_crypt_data), + new_crypt = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rtllib_crypt_data), GFP_KERNEL); if (new_crypt == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - memset(new_crypt, 0, sizeof(struct rtllib_crypt_data)); new_crypt->ops = rtllib_get_crypto_ops("WEP"); if (!new_crypt->ops) { request_module("rtllib_crypt_wep");