Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   Convert all obvious combinations of kmalloc()+memset() to single
> kzalloc() in the fs/ directory.
[snip]
> diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
> index 555b9ac..f85feba 100644
> --- a/fs/seq_file.c
> +++ b/fs/seq_file.c
> @@ -31,12 +31,11 @@ int seq_open(struct file *file, struct s
>       struct seq_file *p = file->private_data;
> 
>       if (!p) {
> -             p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
> +             p = kzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
>               if (!p)
>                       return -ENOMEM;
>               file->private_data = p;
>       }
> -     memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
>       mutex_init(&p->lock);
>       p->op = op;

It's not the same! Previous erases it every time seq_open is called and after
your change only once -- when p == NULL.

regards,
-- 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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