From 2f6d311080c36e30a5fa87adca550dc6b51dbfdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyrill Gorcunov Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:26:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] proc: vmcore - use kzalloc in get_new_element() Instead of kmalloc+memset better use straight kzalloc Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Reviewed-by: WANG Cong Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/vmcore.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c index 5edcc3f..0872afa 100644 --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c @@ -166,12 +166,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_vmcore_operations = { static struct vmcore* __init get_new_element(void) { - struct vmcore *p; - - p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL); - if (p) - memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); - return p; + return kzalloc(sizeof(struct vmcore), GFP_KERNEL); } static u64 __init get_vmcore_size_elf64(char *elfptr) -- 2.7.4