linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/20] drivers/net: Use kzalloc

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Message-ID: <20100513202937.GA1795@mail.wantstofly.org>
Date:	Thu, 13 May 2010 22:29:37 +0200
From:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/20] drivers/net: Use kzalloc

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:00:22PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> Use kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset.
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,size,flags;
> statement S;
> @@
> 
> -x = kmalloc(size,flags);
> +x = kzalloc(size,flags);
>  if (x == NULL) S
> -memset(x, 0, size);
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
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