Re: [PATCH v2] staging: cxt1e1: replace OS_kmalloc/OS_kfree with kmalloc/kfree

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 01:15:23PM +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote:
> 
> Replace OS_kmalloc/OS_kfree with kmalloc/kfree.

You should replace it with kzalloc, not kmalloc, as OS_kmalloc() zeroed
out the allocated data:


> -static inline void *
> -OS_kmalloc (size_t size)
> -{
> -    char       *ptr = kmalloc (size, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
> -
> -    if (ptr)
> -        memset (ptr, 0, size);
> -    return ptr;
> -}

greg k-h
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