linux-kernel - [PATCH 80] fs/ext4/xattr.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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Message-Id: <200708010018.02479.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Date:	Wed, 1 Aug 2007 00:18:02 +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>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 80] fs/ext4/xattr.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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

 fs/ext4/xattr.c | 42421 -> 42382 (-39 bytes)
 fs/ext4/xattr.o | 166152 -> 165720 (-432 bytes)

 fs/ext4/xattr.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-a/fs/ext4/xattr.c	2007-07-26 13:07:46.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-b/fs/ext4/xattr.c	2007-07-29 23:55:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -750,12 +750,11 @@ ext4_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, s
 		}
 	} else {
 		/* Allocate a buffer where we construct the new block. */
-		s->base = kmalloc(sb->s_blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
+		s->base = kzalloc(sb->s_blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
 		/* assert(header == s->base) */
 		error = -ENOMEM;
 		if (s->base == NULL)
 			goto cleanup;
-		memset(s->base, 0, sb->s_blocksize);
 		header(s->base)->h_magic = cpu_to_le32(EXT4_XATTR_MAGIC);
 		header(s->base)->h_blocks = cpu_to_le32(1);
 		header(s->base)->h_refcount = cpu_to_le32(1);
-
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