From 31380de95cc3183bbb379339e67f83d69e56fbd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:38:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [NET] kzalloc: use in alloc_netdev
Noticed this use, fixed it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/core/dev.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 434220d093aa..dfb62998866a 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3100,12 +3100,11 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
alloc_size = (sizeof(*dev) + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST) & ~NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST;
alloc_size += sizeof_priv + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST;
- p = kmalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ p = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p) {
printk(KERN_ERR "alloc_dev: Unable to allocate device.\n");
return NULL;
}
- memset(p, 0, alloc_size);
dev = (struct net_device *)
(((long)p + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST) & ~NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST);