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| author | Prathu Baronia <prathubaronia2011@gmail.com> | 2023-05-22 14:20:19 +0530 |
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| committer | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2023-06-07 16:22:30 -0400 |
| commit | 4d8df0f5f79f747d75a7d356d9b9ea40a4e4c8a9 (patch) | |
| tree | dedc5f73e0a4d6475380e0114a15c1829655700d /drivers/vhost | |
| parent | 9561de3a55bed6bdd44a12820ba81ec416e705a7 (diff) | |
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vhost: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() followed by memset()
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>
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 074273020849..ecb3b397bb38 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -2563,12 +2563,11 @@ 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; |