[PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: use kzalloc rather using kmalloc at create_wlan

From: Devendra Naga
Date: Sat Jul 14 2012 - 03:42:02 EST


instead we would have used kzalloc, so our memory which is allocated will be set to 0.

codepath:

the code path here is prism2sta_probe_usb, calling when ever usb-dev id
and usb-vendor id e.t.c matches with what ever present in the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE,

and in prism2sta_probe_usb , we call create_wlan, and its called nowhere else...

Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c
index 417aea5..1dfd9aa 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c
@@ -1947,8 +1947,8 @@ static wlandevice_t *create_wlan(void)
hfa384x_t *hw = NULL;

/* Alloc our structures */
- wlandev = kmalloc(sizeof(wlandevice_t), GFP_KERNEL);
- hw = kmalloc(sizeof(hfa384x_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+ wlandev = kzalloc(sizeof(wlandevice_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+ hw = kzalloc(sizeof(hfa384x_t), GFP_KERNEL);

if (!wlandev || !hw) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Memory allocation failure.\n", dev_info);
@@ -1957,10 +1957,6 @@ static wlandevice_t *create_wlan(void)
return NULL;
}

- /* Clear all the structs */
- memset(wlandev, 0, sizeof(wlandevice_t));
- memset(hw, 0, sizeof(hfa384x_t));
-
/* Initialize the network device object. */
wlandev->nsdname = dev_info;
wlandev->msdstate = WLAN_MSD_HWPRESENT_PENDING;
--
1.7.9.5

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