linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib/idr.c: Zero memory properly in idr_remove

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:51:37 -0800
From:	David Moore <dcm@....EDU>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>, krh@...hat.com,
	stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de, Nadia.Derbey@...l.net,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paulmck@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/idr.c: Zero memory properly in idr_remove_all

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 14:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> None of this got us much closer to fixing the bug ;)
> 
> What do we think of just removing the constructor and using
> kmem_cache_zalloc()?
> 

Yes, I agree that using kmem_cache_zalloc would be a good solution.

-David

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