netdev - [PATCH net-next-2.6] packet: use vzalloc()

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Date:	Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:31:54 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6] packet: use vzalloc()

alloc_one_pg_vec_page() is supposed to return zeroed memory, so use
vzalloc() instead of vmalloc()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index b6372dd..422705d 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -2367,7 +2367,7 @@ static inline char *alloc_one_pg_vec_page(unsigned long order,
 	 * __get_free_pages failed, fall back to vmalloc
 	 */
 	*flags |= PGV_FROM_VMALLOC;
-	buffer = vmalloc((1 << order) * PAGE_SIZE);
+	buffer = vzalloc((1 << order) * PAGE_SIZE);
 
 	if (buffer)
 		return buffer;


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