linux-kernel - [PATCH][git pull] tracing: replace kzalloc with kcalloc

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Date:	Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:35:07 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH][git pull] tracing: replace kzalloc with kcalloc


Ingo,

Please pull the latest tip/tracing/ftrace tree, which can be found at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
tip/tracing/ftrace


Steven Rostedt (1):
      tracing: replace kzalloc with kcalloc

----
 kernel/trace/trace.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---------------------------
commit 0cfe82451dfa3ebf4e69158f2eb450f2fbb6b715
Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 27 10:51:10 2009 -0500

    tracing: replace kzalloc with kcalloc
    
    Impact: clean up
    
    kcalloc is a better approach to allocate a NULL array.
    
    Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 5db7485..9c5987a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3328,7 +3328,7 @@ create_trace_option_files(struct tracer *tracer)
 	for (cnt = 0; opts[cnt].name; cnt++)
 		;
 
-	topts = kzalloc(sizeof(*topts) * (cnt + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
+	topts = kcalloc(cnt + 1, sizeof(*topts), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!topts)
 		return NULL;
 

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