linux-kernel - Re: [STAGING] slicoss

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Date:	Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:01:35 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Lior Dotan <liodot@...il.com>
CC:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	charrer@...critech.com
Subject: Re: [STAGING] slicoss - use kzalloc

On 11/04/2008 05:27 PM, Lior Dotan wrote:
> This patch uses kzalloc() where applicable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lior Dotan <liodot@...il.com>

/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
=======================================
--- b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c	2008-11-04 11:53:12.878116772 +0200
+++ a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c	2008-11-04 12:08:40.800644774 +0200
@@ -2673,8 +2673,8 @@
static·int·slic_card_init(struct·sliccar
#if·SLIC_DUMP_ENABLED
» if·(!card->dumpbuffer)·{
-» » card->dumpbuffer·=·kmalloc(DUMP_PAGE_SIZE,·GFP_ATOMIC);
+» » card->dumpbuffer·=·kzalloc(DUMP_PAGE_SIZE,·GFP_ATOMIC);
» » ASSERT(card->dumpbuffer);
» » if·(card->dumpbuffer·==·NULL)
@@ -2683,8 +2683,7 @@
static·int·slic_card_init(struct·sliccar
» ·*··Smear·the·shared·memory·structure·and·then·obtain
» ·*··the·PHYSICAL·address·of·this·structure
» ·*/
-» memset(card->dumpbuffer,·0,·DUMP_PAGE_SIZE);


It's wrong, the function in called multiple times, the memset was called every
time, now it would be called only for the first time.
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