Re: [PATCH] audit: Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset

On Nov  5, 2025 Gongwei Li <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Replace kmalloc+memset by kzalloc
> for better readability and simplicity.
> 
> This addresses the warning below:
> 
> WARNING: kzalloc should be used for data, instead of kmalloc/memset
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gongwei Li <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/auditfilter.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

This change does result in zero'ing out the trailing string buffer,
which isn't done currently, and shouldn't be necessary, but as this bit
of code isn't performance critical, it should be okay.

Merged into audit/dev, thanks.

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