From 658c74cf3c98b1c9bc21e26731052db66251dfd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rakib Mullick Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 16:25:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] drivers/char/mspec.c: use {k,v}zalloc to allocate memory Let memory allocator initialize the allocated memory as null, thus remove the use of memset. Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/mspec.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/mspec.c b/drivers/char/mspec.c index 966a95bc974b..25d139c9dbed 100644 --- a/drivers/char/mspec.c +++ b/drivers/char/mspec.c @@ -271,14 +271,13 @@ mspec_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma, pages = (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT; vdata_size = sizeof(struct vma_data) + pages * sizeof(long); if (vdata_size <= PAGE_SIZE) - vdata = kmalloc(vdata_size, GFP_KERNEL); + vdata = kzalloc(vdata_size, GFP_KERNEL); else { - vdata = vmalloc(vdata_size); + vdata = vzalloc(vdata_size); flags = VMD_VMALLOCED; } if (!vdata) return -ENOMEM; - memset(vdata, 0, vdata_size); vdata->vm_start = vma->vm_start; vdata->vm_end = vma->vm_end;