From: joe jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This patch replace kmalloc() + memset() pairs with the appropriate
kzalloc().

Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 drivers/net/slip.c |    5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/net/slip.c~slip-replace-kmalloc-memset-pairs-with-the 
drivers/net/slip.c
--- a/drivers/net/slip.c~slip-replace-kmalloc-memset-pairs-with-the
+++ a/drivers/net/slip.c
@@ -1343,15 +1343,12 @@ static int __init slip_init(void)
        printk(KERN_INFO "SLIP linefill/keepalive option.\n");
 #endif
 
-       slip_devs = kmalloc(sizeof(struct net_device *)*slip_maxdev, 
GFP_KERNEL);
+       slip_devs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct net_device *)*slip_maxdev, 
GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!slip_devs) {
                printk(KERN_ERR "SLIP: Can't allocate slip devices array!  
Uaargh! (-> No SLIP available)\n");
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
 
-       /* Clear the pointer array, we allocate devices when we need them */
-       memset(slip_devs, 0, sizeof(struct net_device *)*slip_maxdev);
-
        /* Fill in our line protocol discipline, and register it */
        if ((status = tty_register_ldisc(N_SLIP, &sl_ldisc)) != 0)  {
                printk(KERN_ERR "SLIP: can't register line discipline (err = 
%d)\n", status);
_
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