linux-kernel - [KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c

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Message-Id: <1186998992.29518.15.camel@bluegenie>
Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:26:32 +0530
From:	Surya Prabhakar N <surya.prabhakar@...ro.com>
To:	dwmw2@...radead.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: [KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in
	drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c

Hi,
   Replacing kmalloc with kzalloc and cleaning up memset in
drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c.


Signed-off-by: Surya Prabhakar <surya.prabhakar@...ro.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c
index 54aa759..53be397 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ static void __init DoC_Probe(unsigned long physadr)
 			return;
 		}
 		docfound = 1;
-		mtd = kmalloc(sizeof(struct DiskOnChip) + sizeof(struct mtd_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+		mtd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct DiskOnChip) + sizeof(struct mtd_info), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 		if (!mtd) {
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "Cannot allocate memory for data structures. Dropping.\n");
@@ -264,9 +264,6 @@ static void __init DoC_Probe(unsigned long physadr)
 
 		this = (struct DiskOnChip *)(&mtd[1]);
 
-		memset((char *)mtd,0, sizeof(struct mtd_info));
-		memset((char *)this, 0, sizeof(struct DiskOnChip));
-
 		mtd->priv = this;
 		this->virtadr = docptr;
 		this->physadr = physadr;

--
thanks
surya.
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