From: Wyatt Banks Removed kmalloc and memset in favor of kzalloc. To explain the HFSPLUS_SB() macro in the removed memset call: hfsplus_fs.h:#define HFSPLUS_SB(super) (*(struct hfsplus_sb_info *)(super)->s_fs_info) Signed-off-by: Wyatt Banks Cc: Roman Zippel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/hfsplus/super.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/hfsplus/super.c~hfsplus-change-kmalloc-memset-to-kzalloc fs/hfsplus/super.c --- a/fs/hfsplus/super.c~hfsplus-change-kmalloc-memset-to-kzalloc +++ a/fs/hfsplus/super.c @@ -283,11 +283,10 @@ static int hfsplus_fill_super(struct sup struct nls_table *nls = NULL; int err = -EINVAL; - sbi = kmalloc(sizeof(struct hfsplus_sb_info), GFP_KERNEL); + sbi = kzalloc(sizeof(*sbi), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sbi) return -ENOMEM; - memset(sbi, 0, sizeof(HFSPLUS_SB(sb))); sb->s_fs_info = sbi; INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&sbi->rsrc_inodes); hfsplus_fill_defaults(sbi); _