linux-kernel - [PATCH] pstore: Remove a redundant zeroing of memory

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Date:   Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:25:09 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] pstore: Remove a redundant zeroing of memory

pstore_record_init() already call memset(0) on its 1st argument, so there
is no need to clear it explicitly before calling this function.

Use kmalloc() instead of kzalloc() to save a few cycles.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
 fs/pstore/platform.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index e26162f102ff..82eaf5a121a9 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ void pstore_get_backend_records(struct pstore_info *psi,
 		struct pstore_record *record;
 		int rc;
 
-		record = kzalloc(sizeof(*record), GFP_KERNEL);
+		record = kmalloc(sizeof(*record), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!record) {
 			pr_err("out of memory creating record\n");
 			break;
-- 
2.32.0