From dd3927105b6f65afb7dac17682172cdfb86d3f00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pekka J Enberg Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:18:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc This patch introduces a kzalloc wrapper and converts kernel/ to use it. It saves a little program text. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slab.c | 18 ++++++------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index a9ff4f7..d7c4443 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -2558,24 +2558,18 @@ void kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache_t *cachep, void *objp) EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free); /** - * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero. - * @n: number of elements. - * @size: element size. + * kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero. + * @size: how many bytes of memory are required. * @flags: the type of memory to allocate. */ -void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags) +void *kzalloc(size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags) { - void *ret = NULL; - - if (n != 0 && size > INT_MAX / n) - return ret; - - ret = kmalloc(n * size, flags); + void *ret = kmalloc(size, flags); if (ret) - memset(ret, 0, n * size); + memset(ret, 0, size); return ret; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(kcalloc); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzalloc); /** * kfree - free previously allocated memory -- cgit v1.1