linux-kernel - [PATCH] scsi: not need to alloc zero buffer for local_atto

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Message-Id: <1471746809-31218-1-git-send-email-shawn.lin@rock-chips.com>
Date:   Sun, 21 Aug 2016 10:33:29 +0800
From:   Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>
To:     Bradley Grove <linuxdrivers@...otech.com>, jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: not need to alloc zero buffer for local_atto_ioctl

We don't need to use kzalloc as we will always memset the
local_atto_ioctl later.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>
---

 drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_main.c b/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_main.c
index 2aca4d1..5092c82 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_main.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_main.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static ssize_t write_hw(struct file *file, struct kobject *kobj,
 	int length = min(sizeof(struct atto_ioctl), count);
 
 	if (!a->local_atto_ioctl) {
-		a->local_atto_ioctl = kzalloc(sizeof(struct atto_ioctl),
+		a->local_atto_ioctl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct atto_ioctl),
 					      GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (a->local_atto_ioctl == NULL) {
 			esas2r_log(ESAS2R_LOG_WARN,
-- 
2.3.7