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

From: Joonwoo Park
Date: Mon Nov 26 2007 - 05:24:40 EST


2007/11/26, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>:
> How about also switching vmalloc/get_free_pages to GFP_ZERO
> and getting rid of the memset entirely while you're at it?
>

xfrm_hash: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc
fix to avoid memset entirely.
Thanks Patrick.

Thanks.
Joonwoo


Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@xxxxxxxxx>

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diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c
index 55ab579..a2023ec 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c
@@ -17,17 +17,14 @@ struct hlist_head *xfrm_hash_alloc(unsigned int sz)
struct hlist_head *n;

if (sz <= PAGE_SIZE)
- n = kmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL);
+ n = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL);
else if (hashdist)
- n = __vmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL);
+ n = __vmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
else
n = (struct hlist_head *)
- __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN,
+ __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ZERO,
get_order(sz));

- if (n)
- memset(n, 0, sz);
-
return n;
}

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