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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: use kzalloc instead of kmalloc and memset
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 03:01:28AM -0400, Wan Jiabing wrote:
> Fix following coccicheck warning:
> ./drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:422:10-17:
> WARNING: kzalloc should be used for pwep, instead of kmalloc/memset
>
> Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@vivo.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> index 0201f6fbeb25..51f46696a593 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> @@ -419,11 +419,10 @@ static int wpa_set_encryption(struct net_device *dev, struct ieee_param *param,
> if (wep_key_len > 0) {
> wep_key_len = wep_key_len <= 5 ? 5 : 13;
> wep_total_len = wep_key_len + FIELD_OFFSET(struct ndis_802_11_wep, KeyMaterial);
> - pwep = kmalloc(wep_total_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> + pwep = kzalloc(wep_total_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!pwep)
> goto exit;

Not related to your patch, but this is missing an error code as well.
It should be:

if (!pwep) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto exit;
}

regards,
dan carpenter

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