[PATCH v2] staging: rtl8192e: replace kmalloc/memset with kzalloc

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Oct 25 09:14:48 UTC 2020


On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:01:47PM -0700, Elena Afanasova wrote:
> Replace kmalloc + memset 0 by a call to kzalloc which zeroes memory too.
> Found with Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elena Afanasova <eafanasova at gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> 	- correct the subject line
> 	- correct the commit message
> 
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_tx.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_tx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_tx.c
> index e0d79daca24a..c9959bb4ab63 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_tx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_tx.c
> @@ -205,12 +205,10 @@ static struct rtllib_txb *rtllib_alloc_txb(int nr_frags, int txb_size,
>  	struct rtllib_txb *txb;
>  	int i;
>  
> -	txb = kmalloc(sizeof(struct rtllib_txb) + (sizeof(u8 *) * nr_frags),
> -		      gfp_mask);
> +	txb = kzalloc(sizeof(*txb) + (sizeof(u8 *) * nr_frags), gfp_mask);

Same here, please always use array_size()


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