netdev - [PATCH] qed: fix unnecessary call to memset cocci warnings

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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:58:15 +0100
From:   Vasyl Gomonovych <gomonovych@...il.com>
To:     gomonovych@...il.com, Ariel.Elior@...ium.com,
        everest-linux-l2@...ium.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] qed: fix unnecessary call to memset cocci warnings

Use kzalloc rather than kmalloc followed by memset with 0
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c:1280:13-20: WARNING:
kzalloc should be used for dcbx_info, instead of kmalloc/memset
Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci

Originally was fixed in:
'commit 561ed23331df ("qed: fix kzalloc-simple.cocci warnings")'
But later warning was introduced in:
'commit 62289ba27558 ("qed: Fix possible system hang in the
dcbnl-getdcbx() path.")'

Signed-off-by: Vasyl Gomonovych <gomonovych@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c
index 8f6ccc0c39e5..9a1bd996a640 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c
@@ -1277,11 +1277,10 @@ static struct qed_dcbx_get *qed_dcbnl_get_dcbx(struct qed_hwfn *hwfn,
 {
 	struct qed_dcbx_get *dcbx_info;
 
-	dcbx_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*dcbx_info), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	dcbx_info = kzmalloc(sizeof(*dcbx_info), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!dcbx_info)
 		return NULL;
 
-	memset(dcbx_info, 0, sizeof(*dcbx_info));
 	if (qed_dcbx_query_params(hwfn, dcbx_info, type)) {
 		kfree(dcbx_info);
 		return NULL;
-- 
1.9.1