Re: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset

[Paul Jackson]

Andrew wrote:
> It hurts readability.  Quick question: is this code correct?
> 
> 	dev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct net_device), GFP_KERNEL);

And it hurts maintainability.  If someone changes 'dev' so
that it is no longer of type 'struct net_device', then they
risk missing this allocation, and introducing what could be
a nasty memory corruption kernel bug.

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