On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 21:01:57 +0100 Nicholas Mc Guire hofrat@osadl.org wrote:
This is an API consolidation only. The use of kmalloc + memset to 0 is equivalent to kzalloc.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire hofrat@osadl.org
Found by coccinelle script (relaxed version of scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci)
Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
Patch is against linux-next (localversion-next is -next-20150518)
diff --git a/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c b/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c index e557dbe..8cdd06f 100644 --- a/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c +++ b/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c @@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ static int snd_pcm_oss_change_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream) if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&runtime->oss.params_lock)) return -EINTR;
- sw_params = kmalloc(sizeof(*sw_params), GFP_KERNEL);
- sw_params = kmalloc(sizeof(*sw_params), GFP_KERNEL);
^ Something odd (manual edit?) seems to have happened to this hunk, making it a no-op. I presume that 'm' was supposed to be a 'z'.
params = kmalloc(sizeof(*params), GFP_KERNEL); sparams = kmalloc(sizeof(*sparams), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sw_params || !params || !sparams) { @@ -988,7 +988,6 @@ static int snd_pcm_oss_change_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream) goto failure; }
- memset(sw_params, 0, sizeof(*sw_params)); if (runtime->oss.trigger) { sw_params->start_threshold = 1; } else {