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From: "Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kzalloc: use in alloc_netdev
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:32:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060407053204.11316.44763.stgit@zion.home.lan> (raw)

From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

Noticed this use, fixed it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
---

 net/core/dev.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 434220d..dfb6299 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3100,12 +3100,11 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev(int size
 	alloc_size = (sizeof(*dev) + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST) & ~NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST;
 	alloc_size += sizeof_priv + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST;
 
-	p = kmalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	p = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!p) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "alloc_dev: Unable to allocate device.\n");
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	memset(p, 0, alloc_size);
 
 	dev = (struct net_device *)
 		(((long)p + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST) & ~NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST);

             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-07  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-07  5:32 Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [this message]
2006-04-07  5:38 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-07  5:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-07 21:53   ` David S. Miller

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