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authorPrathu Baronia <prathubaronia2011@gmail.com>2023-05-22 14:20:19 +0530
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2023-06-07 16:22:30 -0400
commit4d8df0f5f79f747d75a7d356d9b9ea40a4e4c8a9 (patch)
treededc5f73e0a4d6475380e0114a15c1829655700d /drivers/vhost
parent9561de3a55bed6bdd44a12820ba81ec416e705a7 (diff)
downloadlinux-4d8df0f5f79f747d75a7d356d9b9ea40a4e4c8a9.tar.gz
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.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 07427302084955..ecb3b397bb3888 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;