Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/vt6655/iwctl.c fix a sparse warning

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Mar 26 2014 - 11:17:09 EST


On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 00:42 -0700, Jimmy Li wrote:
> fix a sparse warning.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6655/iwctl.c b/drivers/staging/vt6655/iwctl.c
[]
> @@ -1843,7 +1843,7 @@ int iwctl_siwencodeext(struct net_device *dev,
[]
> blen = sizeof(*param);
> - buf = kmalloc((int)blen, (int)GFP_KERNEL);
> + buf = kmalloc((int)blen, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (buf == NULL)
> return -ENOMEM;
> memset(buf, 0, blen);

Ideally, this would be

buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*param), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;

removing the now unused blen variable declaration
and without the now unnecessary memset


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