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| author | Prathu Baronia <prathubaronia2011@gmail.com> | 2023-05-22 11:50:19 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2024-02-16 21:06:31 +0300 |
| commit | 4675661672e3730597babf97c4e9593a775c8917 (patch) | |
| tree | 7dcc7d075abcc5ca0a0d60da428b11707ac9059f /drivers/vhost | |
| parent | d8712c6c6a384e23adeef4b0e03b10b8d242fd07 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4675661672e3730597babf97c4e9593a775c8917.tar.xz | |
vhost: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() followed by memset()
commit 4d8df0f5f79f747d75a7d356d9b9ea40a4e4c8a9 upstream.
Use kzalloc() to allocate new zeroed out msg node instead of
memsetting a node allocated with kmalloc().
Signed-off-by: Prathu Baronia <prathubaronia2011@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20230522085019.42914-1-prathubaronia2011@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/vhost')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index 2eea08029881..61c72e62abd4 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -2588,12 +2588,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_disable_notify); /* Create a new message. */ struct vhost_msg_node *vhost_new_msg(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, int type) { - struct vhost_msg_node *node = kmalloc(sizeof *node, GFP_KERNEL); + /* Make sure all padding within the structure is initialized. */ + struct vhost_msg_node *node = kzalloc(sizeof(*node), GFP_KERNEL); if (!node) return NULL; - /* Make sure all padding within the structure is initialized. */ - memset(&node->msg, 0, sizeof node->msg); node->vq = vq; node->msg.type = type; return node; |