Use *_pool_zalloc rather than *_pool_alloc followed by memset with 0. Found by coccinelle spatch "api/alloc/pool_zalloc-simple.cocci"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <tho...@m3y3r.de> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c @@ -1910,11 +1910,10 @@ static int e100_alloc_cbs(struct nic *ni nic->cb_to_use = nic->cb_to_send = nic->cb_to_clean = NULL; nic->cbs_avail = 0; - nic->cbs = pci_pool_alloc(nic->cbs_pool, GFP_KERNEL, - &nic->cbs_dma_addr); + nic->cbs = pci_pool_zalloc(nic->cbs_pool, GFP_KERNEL, + &nic->cbs_dma_addr); if (!nic->cbs) return -ENOMEM; - memset(nic->cbs, 0, count * sizeof(struct cb)); for (cb = nic->cbs, i = 0; i < count; cb++, i++) { cb->next = (i + 1 < count) ? cb + 1 : nic->cbs;