linux-kernel - [PATCH 16] drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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Message-Id: <200707311923.36235.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:23:36 +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 16] drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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

 drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c | 4424 -> 4393 (-31 bytes)
 drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.o | 101828 -> 101652 (-176 bytes)

 drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c |    9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-a/drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c	2007-07-26 13:07:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-b/drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c	2007-07-31 11:28:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -91,12 +91,11 @@ void dm_put_hw_handler(struct hw_handler

 static struct hwh_internal *_alloc_hw_handler(struct hw_handler_type *hwht)
 {
-	struct hwh_internal *hwhi = kmalloc(sizeof(*hwhi), GFP_KERNEL);
-
-	if (hwhi) {
-		memset(hwhi, 0, sizeof(*hwhi));
+	struct hwh_internal *hwhi;
+
+	hwhi = kzalloc(sizeof(*hwhi), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (hwhi)
 		hwhi->hwht = *hwht;
-	}

 	return hwhi;
 }
-
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