Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Use kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression x,size,flags; statement S; @@ -x = kmalloc(size,flags); +x = kzalloc(size,flags); if (x == NULL) S -memset(x, 0, size); // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai — sound/pci/asihpi/hpi6000.c …