From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 05:38:28 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [NET] kzalloc: use in alloc_netdev
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc2~291^2~8
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=31380de95cc3183bbb379339e67f83d69e56fbd6;p=linux-2.6

[NET] kzalloc: use in alloc_netdev

Noticed this use, fixed it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 434220d093..dfb6299886 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3100,12 +3100,11 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
 	alloc_size = (sizeof(*dev) + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST) & ~NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST;
 	alloc_size += sizeof_priv + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST;
 
-	p = kmalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	p = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!p) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "alloc_dev: Unable to allocate device.\n");
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	memset(p, 0, alloc_size);
 
 	dev = (struct net_device *)
 		(((long)p + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST) & ~NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST);