[PATCH] use kzalloc and kcalloc in core fs code
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 5c36345..8c6eb04 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -146,12 +146,10 @@
int ret = 0;
int i;
- cd = kmalloc(sizeof(struct char_device_struct), GFP_KERNEL);
+ cd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct char_device_struct), GFP_KERNEL);
if (cd == NULL)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- memset(cd, 0, sizeof(struct char_device_struct));
-
mutex_lock(&chrdevs_lock);
/* temporary */
@@ -466,9 +464,8 @@
struct cdev *cdev_alloc(void)
{
- struct cdev *p = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cdev), GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct cdev *p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cdev), GFP_KERNEL);
if (p) {
- memset(p, 0, sizeof(struct cdev));
p->kobj.ktype = &ktype_cdev_dynamic;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->list);
kobject_init(&p->kobj);
