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CDC NCM: Use kzalloc rather than kmalloc followed by memset with 0

Message ID 1321569820.1624.264.camel@localhost.localdomain
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Thomas Meyer Nov. 17, 2011, 10:43 p.m. UTC
This considers some simple cases that are common and easy to validate
Note in particular that there are no ...s in the rule, so all of the
matched code has to be contiguous

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
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David Miller Nov. 22, 2011, 8:58 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100

> This considers some simple cases that are common and easy to validate
> Note in particular that there are no ...s in the rule, so all of the
> matched code has to be contiguous
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is available
> in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

Applied.
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Patch

diff -u -p a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c
--- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c 2011-11-07 19:38:00.160137318 +0100
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c 2011-11-08 09:35:34.632578608 +0100
@@ -465,12 +465,10 @@  static int cdc_ncm_bind(struct usbnet *d
 	int temp;
 	u8 iface_no;
 
-	ctx = kmalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
+	ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ctx == NULL)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(*ctx));
-
 	init_timer(&ctx->tx_timer);
 	spin_lock_init(&ctx->mtx);
 	ctx->netdev = dev->net;