linux-kernel - [PATCH 73] drivers/parport/share.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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Date:	Wed, 1 Aug 2007 00:07:02 +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 73] drivers/parport/share.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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

 drivers/parport/share.c | 29584 -> 29542 (-42 bytes)
 drivers/parport/share.o | 117775 -> 117795 (+20 bytes)

 drivers/parport/share.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-a/drivers/parport/share.c	2007-07-26 13:07:44.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-b/drivers/parport/share.c	2007-07-30 00:14:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -282,14 +282,13 @@ struct parport *parport_register_port(un
 	int device;
 	char *name;

-	tmp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct parport), GFP_KERNEL);
+	tmp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct parport), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tmp) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "parport: memory squeeze\n");
 		return NULL;
 	}

 	/* Init our structure */
- 	memset(tmp, 0, sizeof(struct parport));
 	tmp->base = base;
 	tmp->irq = irq;
 	tmp->dma = dma;
-
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