sg_init_table zeroes its first argument, so the allocation of that argument doesn't have to.
the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression x; @@ x = - kzalloc + kmalloc (...) ... sg_init_table(x,...) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@inria.fr> --- block/bsg-lib.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -u -p a/block/bsg-lib.c b/block/bsg-lib.c --- a/block/bsg-lib.c +++ b/block/bsg-lib.c @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ static int bsg_map_buffer(struct bsg_buf BUG_ON(!req->nr_phys_segments); - buf->sg_list = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL); + buf->sg_list = kmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf->sg_list) return -ENOMEM; sg_init_table(buf->sg_list, req->nr_phys_segments);
