Re: [PATCH] drivers: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc.

[Pekka Enberg]

On 7/21/06, Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > -     if (!(handle = kmalloc(sizeof(struct input_handle), GFP_KERNEL)))
> > +     handle = kzalloc(sizeof(struct input_handle), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +     if (!handle)
> >               return NULL;
>
> sizeof(*handle)?

In general, yes. However, some maintainers don't like that, so I would
recommend to keep them as-is unless you get a clear ack from the
maintainer to change it.
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