netdev - [PATCH 31/33] sfc: Use kzalloc() to ensure struct efx_spi

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Date:	Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:00:30 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: [PATCH 31/33] sfc: Use kzalloc() to ensure struct efx_spi_device is fully initialised

Currently the mtd field is not initialised early enough.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
---
 drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c b/drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c
index 63414ce..e09a01d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c
@@ -2701,7 +2701,7 @@ static int falcon_spi_device_init(struct efx_nic *efx,
 	struct efx_spi_device *spi_device;
 
 	if (device_type != 0) {
-		spi_device = kmalloc(sizeof(*spi_device), GFP_KERNEL);
+		spi_device = kzalloc(sizeof(*spi_device), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!spi_device)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		spi_device->device_id = device_id;
-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
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