linux-kernel - [PATCH] proc: vmcore - use kzalloc in get_new

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Date:	Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:12:07 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] proc: vmcore - use kzalloc in get_new_element

Instead of kmalloc+memset better use straight kzalloc

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
---
 fs/proc/vmcore.c |    7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/fs/proc/vmcore.c
=====================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/fs/proc/vmcore.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -166,12 +166,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc
 
 static struct vmcore* __init get_new_element(void)
 {
-	struct vmcore *p;
-
-	p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (p)
-		memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
-	return p;
+	return kzalloc(sizeof(struct vmcore), GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 static u64 __init get_vmcore_size_elf64(char *elfptr)
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