Commit 3f0666ee authored Nov 01, 2007 by Pavel Emelyanov Committed by David S. Miller Nov 01, 2007

[NET]: Auto-zero the allocated sock object



We have a __GFP_ZERO flag that allocates a zeroed chunk of memory.
Use it in the sk_alloc() and avoid a hand-made memset().

This is a temporary patch that will help us in the nearest future :)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent c308c1b2

net/core/sock.c

+3 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -908,10 +908,12 @@ struct sock sk_alloc(struct net net, int family, gfp_t priority,
		{
		struct sock *sk;

		if (zero_it)
		priority \|= __GFP_ZERO;

		sk = sk_prot_alloc(prot, priority);
		if (sk) {
		if (zero_it) {
		memset(sk, 0, prot->obj_size);
		sk->sk_family = family;
		/*
		* See comment in struct sock definition to understand