[PATCH V2 02/13] net: smc911x: Replace malloc()+memset() with calloc()

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 18:04:57 CET 2020


Replace combination of malloc()+memset() with calloc() as the behavior
is exactly the same and the amount of code is reduced.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas at gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
---
V2: - Use kzalloc()
    - Return -ENOMEM on alloc fail
---
 drivers/net/smc911x.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/smc911x.c b/drivers/net/smc911x.c
index 24b4eaeb3f..9a2a0f4435 100644
--- a/drivers/net/smc911x.c
+++ b/drivers/net/smc911x.c
@@ -242,11 +242,9 @@ int smc911x_initialize(u8 dev_num, int base_addr)
 	unsigned long addrl, addrh;
 	struct eth_device *dev;
 
-	dev = malloc(sizeof(*dev));
-	if (!dev) {
-		return -1;
-	}
-	memset(dev, 0, sizeof(*dev));
+	dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!dev)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	dev->iobase = base_addr;
 
-- 
2.25.1



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