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From: Lennert Buytenhek on 13 May 2010 16:50
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:00:22PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>
>
> Use kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset.
>
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,size,flags;
> statement S;
> @@
>
> -x = kmalloc(size,flags);
> +x = kzalloc(size,flags);
> if (x == NULL) S
> -memset(x, 0, size);
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>

Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(a)wantstofly.org>
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From: David Miller on 18 May 2010 02:00
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 22:00:22 +0200 (CEST)

> From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>
>
> Use kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset.
>
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,size,flags;
> statement S;
> @@
>
> -x = kmalloc(size,flags);
> +x = kzalloc(size,flags);
> if (x == NULL) S
> -memset(x, 0, size);
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>

Applied.
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