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-rw-r--r--drivers/ide/ide.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c
index 73ca8f73917..1bbf67882ae 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c
@@ -864,9 +864,8 @@ static int __ide_add_setting(ide_drive_t *drive, const char *name, int rw, int r
down(&ide_setting_sem);
while ((*p) && strcmp((*p)->name, name) < 0)
p = &((*p)->next);
- if ((setting = kmalloc(sizeof(*setting), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL)
+ if ((setting = kzalloc(sizeof(*setting), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL)
goto abort;
- memset(setting, 0, sizeof(*setting));
if ((setting->name = kmalloc(strlen(name) + 1, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL)
goto abort;
strcpy(setting->name, name);