linux-kernel - [PATCH 26] drivers/scsi/gdth.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:46:10 +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>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, achim_leubner@...ptec.com,
	boji.t.kannanthanam@...el.com, johannes_dinner@...ptec.com
Subject: [PATCH 26] drivers/scsi/gdth.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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

 drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 189401 -> 189342 (-59 bytes)
 drivers/scsi/gdth.o | 331028 -> 330324 (-704 bytes)

 drivers/scsi/gdth.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c	2007-07-26 13:07:42.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-b/drivers/scsi/gdth.c	2007-07-31 14:08:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -458,10 +458,10 @@ int __gdth_execute(struct scsi_device *s
     DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(wait);
     int rval;

-    scp = kmalloc(sizeof(*scp), GFP_KERNEL);
+    scp = kzalloc(sizeof(*scp), GFP_KERNEL);
     if (!scp)
         return -ENOMEM;
-    memset(scp, 0, sizeof(*scp));
+
     scp->device = sdev;
     /* use request field to save the ptr. to completion struct. */
     scp->request = (struct request *)&wait;
@@ -5273,10 +5273,10 @@ static int gdth_ioctl(struct inode *inod
         hanum = res.ionode;
         ha = gdth_find_ha(hanum);

-        scp  = kmalloc(sizeof(*scp), GFP_KERNEL);
+        scp = kzalloc(sizeof(*scp), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!scp)
             return -ENOMEM;
-        memset(scp, 0, sizeof(*scp));
+
         scp->device = ha->sdev;
         scp->cmd_len = 12;
         scp->use_sg = 0;
-
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