From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" A patch for the CTC / ESCON network driver. Switch from kmalloc to kzalloc when appropriate, remove some unnecessary kmalloc casts too. Since I have no s390 machine, I didn't compile it but I examined it carefully. Signed-off-by: "Ahmed S. Darwish" Cc: Frank Pavlic Cc: Ursula Braun Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- drivers/s390/net/ctcmain.c | 23 +++++++++-------------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) Index: quilt-2.6/drivers/s390/net/ctcmain.c =================================================================== --- quilt-2.6.orig/drivers/s390/net/ctcmain.c 2007-04-27 16:01:49.000000000 +0200 +++ quilt-2.6/drivers/s390/net/ctcmain.c 2007-04-27 16:04:59.000000000 +0200 @@ -1638,21 +1638,19 @@ struct channel *ch; DBF_TEXT(trace, 2, __FUNCTION__); - if ((ch = - (struct channel *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct channel), - GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) { + ch = kzalloc(sizeof(struct channel), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!ch) { ctc_pr_warn("ctc: Out of memory in add_channel\n"); return -1; } - memset(ch, 0, sizeof (struct channel)); - if ((ch->ccw = kmalloc(8*sizeof(struct ccw1), - GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA)) == NULL) { + /* assure all flags and counters are reset */ + ch->ccw = kzalloc(8 * sizeof(struct ccw1), GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA); + if (!ch->ccw) { kfree(ch); ctc_pr_warn("ctc: Out of memory in add_channel\n"); return -1; } - memset(ch->ccw, 0, 8*sizeof(struct ccw1)); // assure all flags and counters are reset /** * "static" ccws are used in the following way: @@ -1692,15 +1690,14 @@ return -1; } fsm_newstate(ch->fsm, CH_STATE_IDLE); - if ((ch->irb = kmalloc(sizeof (struct irb), - GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) { + ch->irb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct irb), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!ch->irb) { ctc_pr_warn("ctc: Out of memory in add_channel\n"); kfree_fsm(ch->fsm); kfree(ch->ccw); kfree(ch); return -1; } - memset(ch->irb, 0, sizeof (struct irb)); while (*c && less_than((*c)->id, ch->id)) c = &(*c)->next; if (*c && (!strncmp((*c)->id, ch->id, CTC_ID_SIZE))) { @@ -2745,14 +2742,13 @@ if (!get_device(&cgdev->dev)) return -ENODEV; - priv = kmalloc(sizeof (struct ctc_priv), GFP_KERNEL); + priv = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ctc_priv), GFP_KERNEL); if (!priv) { ctc_pr_err("%s: Out of memory\n", __func__); put_device(&cgdev->dev); return -ENOMEM; } - memset(priv, 0, sizeof (struct ctc_priv)); rc = ctc_add_files(&cgdev->dev); if (rc) { kfree(priv); @@ -2793,10 +2789,9 @@ DBF_TEXT(setup, 3, __FUNCTION__); if (alloc_device) { - dev = kmalloc(sizeof (struct net_device), GFP_KERNEL); + dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct net_device), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dev) return NULL; - memset(dev, 0, sizeof (struct net_device)); } dev->priv = privptr; -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/