Re: [PATCH][RFC] PnP BIOS cleanups (4/4)

From: Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 01:36:59 EST

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On 2 February 2003 22:36, Adam Belay wrote:
> This patch cleans up device inserting and disabling.
>
>
> --- a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c Sun Feb 2 18:43:34 2003
> +++ b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c Sun Feb 2 19:19:13 2003
> @@ -236,6 +236,7 @@
> void *p = kmalloc( size, f );
> if ( p == NULL )
> printk(KERN_ERR "PnPBIOS: kmalloc() failed\n");
> + memset(p, 0, size);
> return p;
> }

Erm... so you can memset an area pointed by a NULL pointer here?

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