[PATCH 2/3] user.c: use kmem_cache_zalloc()

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Fri Sep 21 2007 - 05:39:31 EST


Quite a few fields are zeroed during user_struct creation, so use
kmem_cache_zalloc() -- save a few lines and #ifdef. Also will help avoid
#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE in next patch.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxx>
---

kernel/user.c | 13 +------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -129,21 +129,11 @@ struct user_struct * alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid)
if (!up) {
struct user_struct *new;

- new = kmem_cache_alloc(uid_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ new = kmem_cache_zalloc(uid_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new)
return NULL;
new->uid = uid;
atomic_set(&new->__count, 1);
- atomic_set(&new->processes, 0);
- atomic_set(&new->files, 0);
- atomic_set(&new->sigpending, 0);
-#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER
- atomic_set(&new->inotify_watches, 0);
- atomic_set(&new->inotify_devs, 0);
-#endif
-
- new->mq_bytes = 0;
- new->locked_shm = 0;

if (alloc_uid_keyring(new, current) < 0) {
kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, new);

-
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