Re: [PATCH 1/2] iio: inkern: clear allocated memory
From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Mon Sep 10 2012 - 05:12:49 EST
On 10/09/12 09:02, Kim, Milo wrote:
Use kzalloc() rathern than kmalloc() for initializing iio_dev and
iio_chan_spec.
Please state why. I'm sure I can track it down, but it ought to be
in the commit comment.
Signed-off-by: Milo(Woogyom) Kim <milo.kim@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/iio/inkern.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/iio/inkern.c b/drivers/iio/inkern.c
index b5afc2f..1faa240 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/inkern.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/inkern.c
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ struct iio_channel *iio_channel_get(const char *name, const char *channel_name)
if (c == NULL)
return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
- channel = kmalloc(sizeof(*channel), GFP_KERNEL);
+ channel = kzalloc(sizeof(*channel), GFP_KERNEL);
if (channel == NULL)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
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