From 084e24acc906c162c92de7df807190856ae60928 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Schwarzott Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:51:01 -0300 Subject: V4L/DVB (12440): Use kzalloc for frontend states to have struct dvb_frontend properly This patch changes most frontend drivers to allocate their state structure via kzalloc and not kmalloc. This is done to properly initialize the embedded "struct dvb_frontend frontend" field, that they all have. The visible effect of this struct being uninitalized is, that the member "id" that is used to set the name of kernel thread is totally random. Some board drivers (for example cx88-dvb) set this "id" via videobuf_dvb_alloc_frontend but most do not. So I at least get random id values for saa7134, flexcop and ttpci based cards. It looks like this in dmesg: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend -10551321 (ST STV0299 DVB-S) The related kernel thread then also gets a strange name like "kdvb-ad-1-fe--1". Cc: Michael Krufky Cc: Steven Toth Cc: Timothy Lee Cc: Igor M. Liplianin Signed-off-by: Matthias Schwarzott Acked-by: Andreas Oberritter Signed-off-by: Douglas Schilling Landgraf Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp8870.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp8870.c') diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp8870.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp8870.c index 1c9a9b4051b..b85eb60a893 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp8870.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp8870.c @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ struct dvb_frontend* sp8870_attach(const struct sp8870_config* config, struct sp8870_state* state = NULL; /* allocate memory for the internal state */ - state = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sp8870_state), GFP_KERNEL); + state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sp8870_state), GFP_KERNEL); if (state == NULL) goto error; /* setup the state */ -- cgit