[PATCH] staging: rtl8712: consolidate kmalloc/memset 0 of array to kcalloc

[Nicholas Mc Guire]

This is an API consolidation only. The use of kmalloc of an array
of elements of equal size + memset to 0 of the same is equivalent to
kcalloc.

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_STAGING=y, CONFIG_R8712U=m

Patch is against linux-next (localversion-next is -next-20160104)

 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c
index 4ff5301..aa841bf 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c
@@ -72,14 +72,12 @@ sint _r8712_init_recv_priv(struct recv_priv *precvpriv,
 	_init_queue(&precvpriv->recv_pending_queue);
 	precvpriv->adapter = padapter;
 	precvpriv->free_recvframe_cnt = NR_RECVFRAME;
-	precvpriv->pallocated_frame_buf = kmalloc(NR_RECVFRAME *
+	precvpriv->pallocated_frame_buf = kcalloc(NR_RECVFRAME,
 				sizeof(union recv_frame) + RXFRAME_ALIGN_SZ,
 				GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (precvpriv->pallocated_frame_buf == NULL)
 		return _FAIL;
 	kmemleak_not_leak(precvpriv->pallocated_frame_buf);
-	memset(precvpriv->pallocated_frame_buf, 0, NR_RECVFRAME *
-		sizeof(union recv_frame) + RXFRAME_ALIGN_SZ);
 	precvpriv->precv_frame_buf = precvpriv->pallocated_frame_buf +
 				    RXFRAME_ALIGN_SZ -
 				    ((addr_t)(precvpriv->pallocated_frame_buf) &
-- 
2.1.4

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