[PATCH] net: Use kzalloc rather than kmalloc followed by memsetwith 0

[Thomas Meyer]

This considers some simple cases that are common and easy to validate
Note in particular that there are no ...s in the rule, so all of the
matched code has to be contiguous

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
---

diff -u -p a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c 2011-11-07 19:37:59.173455664 +0100
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c 2011-11-08 09:32:00.426428212 +0100
@@ -4382,12 +4382,10 @@ static void ksz_update_timer(struct ksz_
  */
 static int ksz_alloc_soft_desc(struct ksz_desc_info *desc_info, int transmit)
 {
-	desc_info->ring = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ksz_desc) * desc_info->alloc,
-		GFP_KERNEL);
+	desc_info->ring = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ksz_desc) * desc_info->alloc,
+				  GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!desc_info->ring)
 		return 1;
-	memset((void *) desc_info->ring, 0,
-		sizeof(struct ksz_desc) * desc_info->alloc);
 	hw_init_desc(desc_info, transmit);
 	return 0;
 }
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