Re: [PATCH 1/4] xfrm_hash: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

From: Patrick McHardy
Date: Mon Nov 26 2007 - 04:11:48 EST


Joonwoo Park wrote:
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c
index 55ab579..37795bd 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c
@@ -17,16 +17,17 @@ struct hlist_head *xfrm_hash_alloc(unsigned int sz)
struct hlist_head *n;
if (sz <= PAGE_SIZE)
- n = kmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL);
- else if (hashdist)
- n = __vmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL);
- else
- n = (struct hlist_head *)
- __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN,
- get_order(sz));
-
- if (n)
- memset(n, 0, sz);
+ n = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL);
+ else {
+ if (hashdist)
+ n = __vmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL);
+ else
+ n = (struct hlist_head *)
+ __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN,
+ get_order(sz));
+ if (n)
+ memset(n, 0, sz);


How about also switching vmalloc/get_free_pages to GFP_ZERO
and getting rid of the memset entirely while you're at it?
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