Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

["Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

On Tue, 5 April 2005 17:26:31 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> 
> Would this be a good thing to clean up, or isn't it worth the effort at all?

I would welcome such a stream of patches.  But in spite of the calloc
interface being rather stupid, I'd prefer to see patches with kcalloc
instead of kmalloc_zero.

> --- ./lib/kobject_uevent.c.orig	2005-04-05 16:39:09.000000000 +0100
> +++ ./lib/kobject_uevent.c	2005-04-05 17:01:26.000000000 +0100
> @@ -234,10 +234,9 @@ void kobject_hotplug(struct kobject *kob
>  	if (!action_string)
>  		return;
>  
> -	envp = kmalloc(NUM_ENVP * sizeof (char *), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	envp = kmalloc_zero(NUM_ENVP * sizeof (char *), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!envp)
>  		return;
> -	memset (envp, 0x00, NUM_ENVP * sizeof (char *));
>  
>  	buffer = kmalloc(BUFFER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!buffer)


Jörn

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