The patch titled
ext4: kmalloc to kzalloc
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
ext4-kmalloc-to-kzalloc.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: ext4: kmalloc to kzalloc
From: Avantika Mathur <[email protected]>
Performs kmalloc to kzalloc conversion
Signed-off-by: Avantika Mathur <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
fs/ext4/extents.c | 9 +++------
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/ext4/extents.c~ext4-kmalloc-to-kzalloc fs/ext4/extents.c
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c~ext4-kmalloc-to-kzalloc
+++ a/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -477,13 +477,12 @@ ext4_ext_find_extent(struct inode *inode
/* account possible depth increase */
if (!path) {
- path = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 2),
+ path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 2),
GFP_NOFS);
if (!path)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
alloc = 1;
}
- memset(path, 0, sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 1));
path[0].p_hdr = eh;
/* walk through the tree */
@@ -643,10 +642,9 @@ static int ext4_ext_split(handle_t *hand
* We need this to handle errors and free blocks
* upon them.
*/
- ablocks = kmalloc(sizeof(ext4_fsblk_t) * depth, GFP_NOFS);
+ ablocks = kzalloc(sizeof(ext4_fsblk_t) * depth, GFP_NOFS);
if (!ablocks)
return -ENOMEM;
- memset(ablocks, 0, sizeof(ext4_fsblk_t) * depth);
/* allocate all needed blocks */
ext_debug("allocate %d blocks for indexes/leaf\n", depth - at);
@@ -1772,12 +1770,11 @@ int ext4_ext_remove_space(struct inode *
* We start scanning from right side, freeing all the blocks
* after i_size and walking into the tree depth-wise.
*/
- path = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
+ path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
if (path == NULL) {
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- memset(path, 0, sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 1));
path[0].p_hdr = ext_inode_hdr(inode);
if (ext4_ext_check_header(__FUNCTION__, inode, path[0].p_hdr)) {
err = -EIO;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
ext4-if-expression-format.patch
ext4-kmalloc-to-kzalloc.patch
ext4-eliminate-inline-functions.patch