Re: [PATCH 2.6.19] e1000: replace kmalloc with kzalloc

From: Auke Kok
Date: Tue Dec 12 2006 - 13:33:16 EST


Pekka Enberg wrote:
On 12/12/06, Yan Burman <burman.yan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
size = txdr->count * sizeof(struct e1000_buffer);
- if (!(txdr->buffer_info = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL))) {
+ if (!(txdr->buffer_info = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL))) {
ret_val = 1;
goto err_nomem;
}
- memset(txdr->buffer_info, 0, size);

No one seems to be using size elsewhere so why not convert to
kcalloc() and get rid of it? (Seems to apply to other places as well.)

I'll put it on my todo list.

Auke
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