From: Kumar Gala Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:13:11 +0000 (-0600) Subject: [PATCH] gianfar mii needs to zero out the mii_bus structure X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16.28-rc1~2757^2~7 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=125d128bec1bbf81be4c198243334a6153c0b023;p=karo-tx-linux.git [PATCH] gianfar mii needs to zero out the mii_bus structure To ensure that phy_mask and any future elements of the mii_bus structure are initialized use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc(). This fixes an issue in which phy_mask was not being initialized and we would skip random phy addresses when scanning. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c index 7263395d78bb..9544279e8bcd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c +++ b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ int gfar_mdio_probe(struct device *dev) if (NULL == dev) return -EINVAL; - new_bus = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mii_bus), GFP_KERNEL); + new_bus = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mii_bus), GFP_KERNEL); if (NULL == new_bus) return -ENOMEM;