From 17baa2a2c40f2f0330d25819b589a515d36b2d40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: yan Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 17:15:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] proc: use kzalloc instead of kmalloc and memset Part of the memory will be written twice after this change, but that should be negligible. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix __proc_create() coding-style issues, remove unneeded zero-initialisations] Signed-off-by: yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/generic.c | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c index 9e8f63164309..0d80cef4cfb9 100644 --- a/fs/proc/generic.c +++ b/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -605,7 +605,8 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *__proc_create(struct proc_dir_entry **parent, unsigned int len; /* make sure name is valid */ - if (!name || !strlen(name)) goto out; + if (!name || !strlen(name)) + goto out; if (xlate_proc_name(name, parent, &fn) != 0) goto out; @@ -616,20 +617,18 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *__proc_create(struct proc_dir_entry **parent, len = strlen(fn); - ent = kmalloc(sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry) + len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!ent) goto out; + ent = kzalloc(sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry) + len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!ent) + goto out; - memset(ent, 0, sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry)); memcpy(ent->name, fn, len + 1); ent->namelen = len; ent->mode = mode; ent->nlink = nlink; atomic_set(&ent->count, 1); - ent->pde_users = 0; spin_lock_init(&ent->pde_unload_lock); - ent->pde_unload_completion = NULL; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ent->pde_openers); - out: +out: return ent; } -- 2.34.1