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authorRakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>2011-05-27 01:25:56 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-27 02:12:37 +0200
commit658c74cf3c98b1c9bc21e26731052db66251dfd8 (patch)
tree9fecd1f438aa8fec724bf4ff2d8927c322da7f13 /drivers/char
parentipmi: convert to seq_file interface (diff)
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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 <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/mspec.c5
1 files 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;