linux-kernel - [PATCH] kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc

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Date:	Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:43:05 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc

We don't need to memset if we just use kzalloc() rather than kmalloc() in 
kmemleak_test_init().

(please CC on replies)


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 kmemleak-test.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak-test.c b/mm/kmemleak-test.c
index 177a516..ff0d977 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak-test.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak-test.c
@@ -75,13 +75,11 @@ static int __init kmemleak_test_init(void)
 	 * after the module is removed.
 	 */
 	for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
-		elem = kmalloc(sizeof(*elem), GFP_KERNEL);
-		pr_info("kmemleak: kmalloc(sizeof(*elem)) = %p\n", elem);
+		elem = kzalloc(sizeof(*elem), GFP_KERNEL);
+		pr_info("kmemleak: kzalloc(sizeof(*elem)) = %p\n", elem);
 		if (!elem)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-		memset(elem, 0, sizeof(*elem));
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&elem->list);
-
 		list_add_tail(&elem->list, &test_list);
 	}
 


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