linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] hvc_console: use kzalloc

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Date:	Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:14:28 -0600
From:	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>
To:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	Benjiman Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
cc:	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joe Peterson <joe@...rush.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] hvc_console: use kzalloc

Replace kmalloc + memset  with kzalloc.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>

Index: work.git/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
===================================================================
--- work.git.orig/drivers/char/hvc_console.c	2009-01-08 04:24:10.000000000 -0600
+++ work.git/drivers/char/hvc_console.c	2009-01-08 04:24:35.000000000 -0600
@@ -765,13 +765,11 @@ struct hvc_struct __devinit *hvc_alloc(u
 			return ERR_PTR(err);
 	}
 
-	hp = kmalloc(ALIGN(sizeof(*hp), sizeof(long)) + outbuf_size,
+	hp = kzalloc(ALIGN(sizeof(*hp), sizeof(long)) + outbuf_size,
 			GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!hp)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
-	memset(hp, 0x00, sizeof(*hp));
-
 	hp->vtermno = vtermno;
 	hp->data = data;
 	hp->ops = ops;
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