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SubjectRe: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset
Pekka J Enberg writes:

[...]

> +
> +The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
> +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc(). Please refer to the API
> +documentation for further information about them.
> +
> +The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
> +
> + p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);

Parentheses around *p are superfluous. See

> The C Programming Language, Second Edition
> by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.

Nikita.
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