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[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>
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Pavel Emelyanov 2007-11-01 00:34:42 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent c308c1b20e
commit 3f0666ee30
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@ -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