linux-kernel - [PATCH] arch: x86: platform: uv: Replaced kmalloc & memset with kzalloc

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Date:	Sat,  9 Mar 2013 11:40:43 +0200
From:	Alexandru Gheorghiu <gheorghiuandru@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexandru Gheorghiu <gheorghiuandru@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] arch: x86: platform: uv: Replaced kmalloc & memset with kzalloc

Replaced kmalloc followed by memset calls with a single kzalloc call.
This was found using coccicheck.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghiu <gheorghiuandru@...il.com>
---
 arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_time.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_time.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_time.c
index 98718f6..5c86786 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_time.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_time.c
@@ -159,10 +159,9 @@ static __init int uv_rtc_allocate_timers(void)
 {
 	int cpu;
 
-	blade_info = kmalloc(uv_possible_blades * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
+	blade_info = kzalloc(uv_possible_blades * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!blade_info)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	memset(blade_info, 0, uv_possible_blades * sizeof(void *));
 
 	for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
 		int nid = cpu_to_node(cpu);
-- 
1.7.9.5

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