From: Mariusz Kozlowski drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c | 4424 -> 4393 (-31 bytes) drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.o | 101828 -> 101652 (-176 bytes) Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski Cc: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c | 7 +++---- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c~drivers-md-dm-hw-handlerc-kmalloc-memset-conversion-to-kzalloc drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c --- a/drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c~drivers-md-dm-hw-handlerc-kmalloc-memset-conversion-to-kzalloc +++ a/drivers/md/dm-hw-handler.c @@ -91,12 +91,11 @@ void dm_put_hw_handler(struct hw_handler static struct hwh_internal *_alloc_hw_handler(struct hw_handler_type *hwht) { - struct hwh_internal *hwhi = kmalloc(sizeof(*hwhi), GFP_KERNEL); + struct hwh_internal *hwhi; - if (hwhi) { - memset(hwhi, 0, sizeof(*hwhi)); + hwhi = kzalloc(sizeof(*hwhi), GFP_KERNEL); + if (hwhi) hwhi->hwht = *hwht; - } return hwhi; } _