ksz884x: Use kzalloc rather than kmalloc followed by memset with 0
authorThomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:43:40 +0000 (12:43 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:02:36 +0000 (15:02 -0500)
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.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c

index 7abd510fe01fdfc70eded4da678c225f040d9645..a718865a8fed29185ae5fcc3f82c8d13e410a99a 100644 (file)
@@ -4380,12 +4380,10 @@ static void ksz_update_timer(struct ksz_timer_info *info)
  */
 static int ksz_alloc_soft_desc(struct ksz_desc_info *desc_info, int transmit)
 {
-       desc_info->ring = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ksz_desc) * desc_info->alloc,
-               GFP_KERNEL);
+       desc_info->ring = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ksz_desc) * desc_info->alloc,
+                                 GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!desc_info->ring)
                return 1;
-       memset((void *) desc_info->ring, 0,
-               sizeof(struct ksz_desc) * desc_info->alloc);
        hw_init_desc(desc_info, transmit);
        return 0;
 }