From: Mariusz Kozlowski drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 189401 -> 189342 (-59 bytes) drivers/scsi/gdth.o | 331028 -> 330324 (-704 bytes) Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/scsi/gdth.c~drivers-scsi-gdthc-kmalloc-memset-conversion-to-kzalloc drivers/scsi/gdth.c --- a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c~drivers-scsi-gdthc-kmalloc-memset-conversion-to-kzalloc +++ a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c @@ -726,10 +726,10 @@ int __gdth_execute(struct scsi_device *s DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(wait); int rval; - scp = kmalloc(sizeof(*scp), GFP_KERNEL); + scp = kzalloc(sizeof(*scp), GFP_KERNEL); if (!scp) return -ENOMEM; - memset(scp, 0, sizeof(*scp)); + scp->device = sdev; /* use request field to save the ptr. to completion struct. */ scp->request = (struct request *)&wait; _