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proc: kmalloc struct pde_opener 

kzalloc is too much, half of the fields will be reinitialized anyway.

If proc file doesn't have ->release hook (some still do not), clearing
is unnecessary because it will be freed immediately.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161029155747.GC1246@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Alexey Dobriyan 2016-12-12 16:45:20 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f5887c71cf
commit 39a10ac23c
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static int proc_reg_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
* by hand in remove_proc_entry(). For this, save opener's credentials
* for later.
*/
pdeo = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pde_opener), GFP_KERNEL);
pdeo = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pde_opener), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pdeo)
return -ENOMEM;
@ -338,6 +338,8 @@ static int proc_reg_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
if (rv == 0 && release) {
/* To know what to release. */
pdeo->file = file;
pdeo->closing = false;
pdeo->c = NULL;
/* Strictly for "too late" ->release in proc_reg_release(). */
spin_lock(&pde->pde_unload_lock);
list_add(&pdeo->lh, &pde->pde_openers);