[U-Boot] [PATCH] mmc/dwmmc: Using calloc instead malloc
Alexey Brodkin
Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Wed Dec 18 16:22:07 CET 2013
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 09:08 -0600, Chin Liang See wrote:
> To enhance the SDMMC DesignWare driver to use calloc instead of
> malloc. This will avoid the incident that uninitialized members
> of mmc structure are later used for NULL comparison.
>
IMHO pretty sane change.
Actually I had local memset right after this malloc to make sure all
members are zeroed.
But with this change we have a clean structure right away.
I'm wondering why "calloc" is not used in every driver for device
specific structure allocation.
-Alexey
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