[PATCH 2/5] staging: rtl8723bs: replace kmalloc + memset with kzalloc

Erick Karanja <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:37:55 +0300
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.outreachy,dev.linux.lists.linux-staging,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <d68a05a05966167f8e54f2fc779af2f1cfe32e07.1743434232.git.karanja99erick@gmail.com>
Replace a call to kmalloc followed by memset with a single call to
kzalloc, which both allocates memory and zeroes it in one step.

This change improves readability and reduces redundant code.

Signed-off-by: Erick Karanja <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c
index a00f9f0c85c5..be46132a533a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c
@@ -24,12 +24,7 @@ void *_rtw_malloc(u32 sz)
 
 void *_rtw_zmalloc(u32 sz)
 {
-	void *pbuf = _rtw_malloc(sz);
-
-	if (pbuf)
-		memset(pbuf, 0, sz);
-
-	return pbuf;
+	return kzalloc(sz, in_interrupt() ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 inline struct sk_buff *_rtw_skb_alloc(u32 sz)
-- 
2.43.0