[PATCH] Orangefs: use kzalloc for kmalloc + memset 0

From: Nicholas Mc Guire
Date: Tue Dec 22 2015 - 11:17:45 EST


This is an API consolidation only. The use of kmalloc + memset to 0
should be equivalent to kzalloc in this case.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Found by coccinelle script (relaxed version of
scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci)

Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig +
CONFIG_ORANGEFS_FS=m

Patch is against linux-next (localversion-next is -next-20151222)

fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c b/fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c
index 7319f1a..9eb7972 100644
--- a/fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c
+++ b/fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c
@@ -365,10 +365,9 @@ static ssize_t orangefs_debug_write(struct file *file,
count = ORANGEFS_MAX_DEBUG_STRING_LEN + 1;
}

- buf = kmalloc(ORANGEFS_MAX_DEBUG_STRING_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kzalloc(ORANGEFS_MAX_DEBUG_STRING_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
goto out;
- memset(buf, 0, ORANGEFS_MAX_DEBUG_STRING_LEN);

if (copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, count - 1)) {
gossip_debug(GOSSIP_DEBUGFS_DEBUG,
--
2.1.4

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