Re: [PATCH] vgaarb: use kzalloc in vga_arbiter_add_pci_device()

From: Jani Nikula
Date: Thu Oct 01 2015 - 04:23:31 EST


On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c b/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
> index a0b433456107..3166e4bc4eb6 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
> @@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ static bool vga_arbiter_add_pci_device(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> return false;
>
> /* Allocate structure */
> - vgadev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct vga_device), GFP_KERNEL);
> + vgadev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct vga_device), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (vgadev == NULL) {
> pr_err("failed to allocate pci device\n");
> /*
> @@ -541,8 +541,6 @@ static bool vga_arbiter_add_pci_device(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> return false;
> }
>
> - memset(vgadev, 0, sizeof(*vgadev));
> -
> /* Take lock & check for duplicates */
> spin_lock_irqsave(&vga_lock, flags);
> if (vgadev_find(pdev) != NULL) {
> --
> 2.1.3
>
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