linux-kernel - [PATCH 59] drivers/video/offb.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:33:23 +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>,
	mchehab@...radead.org, v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org,
	video4linux-list@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH 59] drivers/video/offb.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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

 drivers/video/offb.c | 14535 -> 14505 (-30 bytes)

 drivers/video/offb.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-a/drivers/video/offb.c	2007-07-26 13:07:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-b/drivers/video/offb.c	2007-07-31 11:22:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -273,13 +273,11 @@ static void __init offb_init_fb(const ch

 	size = sizeof(struct fb_info) + sizeof(u32) * 16;

-	info = kmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
-
-	if (info == 0) {
+	info = kzalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (!info) {
 		release_mem_region(res_start, res_size);
 		return;
 	}
-	memset(info, 0, size);

 	fix = &info->fix;
 	var = &info->var;
-
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