[PATCH] vhost: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() followed by memset()

[Prathu Baronia <prathubaronia2011@gmail.com>]

Use kzalloc() to allocate new zeroed out msg node instead of
memsetting a node allocated with kmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Prathu Baronia <prathubaronia2011@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index a92af08e7864..579ecb4ee4d2 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -2575,12 +2575,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_disable_notify);
 /* Create a new message. */
 struct vhost_msg_node *vhost_new_msg(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, int type)
 {
-	struct vhost_msg_node *node = kmalloc(sizeof *node, GFP_KERNEL);
+	/* Make sure all padding within the structure is initialized. */
+	struct vhost_msg_node *node = kzalloc(sizeof(*node), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!node)
 		return NULL;
 
-	/* Make sure all padding within the structure is initialized. */
-	memset(&node->msg, 0, sizeof node->msg);
 	node->vq = vq;
 	node->msg.type = type;
 	return node;

base-commit: 4d6d4c7f541d7027beed4fb86eb2c451bd8d6fff
-- 
2.34.1