[PATCH 2/2] staging: media: cxd2099: use kzalloc to allocate ci pointer of type struct cxd in cxd2099_attach

Devendra Naga develkernel412222 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 18:12:21 UTC 2012


this does kmalloc and followed by memset, calling kzalloc will actually
sets the allocated memory to zero, use kzalloc instead

Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <develkernel412222 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/media/cxd2099/cxd2099.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/cxd2099/cxd2099.c b/drivers/staging/media/cxd2099/cxd2099.c
index 1678503..4f2235f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/cxd2099/cxd2099.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/cxd2099/cxd2099.c
@@ -691,10 +691,9 @@ struct dvb_ca_en50221 *cxd2099_attach(struct cxd2099_cfg *cfg,
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	ci = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cxd), GFP_KERNEL);
+	ci = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cxd), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ci)
 		return NULL;
-	memset(ci, 0, sizeof(*ci));
 
 	mutex_init(&ci->lock);
 	memcpy(&ci->cfg, cfg, sizeof(struct cxd2099_cfg));
-- 
1.7.9.5




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