linux-kernel - [PATCH 15] kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:21:58 +0200
From:	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 15] kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>

 drivers/md/dm-emc.c | 8547 -> 8518 (-29 bytes)
 drivers/md/dm-emc.o | 107484 -> 107416 (-68 bytes)

 drivers/md/dm-emc.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-a/drivers/md/dm-emc.c	2007-07-26 13:07:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-b/drivers/md/dm-emc.c	2007-07-31 13:16:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -224,12 +224,11 @@ fail_path:

 static struct emc_handler *alloc_emc_handler(void)
 {
-	struct emc_handler *h = kmalloc(sizeof(*h), GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct emc_handler *h;

-	if (h) {
-		memset(h, 0, sizeof(*h));
+	h = kzalloc(sizeof(*h), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (h)
 		spin_lock_init(&h->lock);
-	}

 	return h;
 }
-
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