[PATCH RESEND 2/6] crypto: af_alg - use sock_kzalloc in af_alg_alloc_areq
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: 2026-05-27 08:25:58
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linux-crypto, lkml
Subsystem:
crypto api, the rest · Maintainers:
Herbert Xu, "David S. Miller", Linus Torvalds
Replace sock_kmalloc() followed by memset(0) with sock_kzalloc() to simplify af_alg_alloc_areq(). Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> --- crypto/af_alg.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/af_alg.c b/crypto/af_alg.c
index 48c53f488e0f..9438a874c1f1 100644
--- a/crypto/af_alg.c
+++ b/crypto/af_alg.c@@ -1158,12 +1158,10 @@ struct af_alg_async_req *af_alg_alloc_areq(struct sock *sk, if (ctx->inflight) return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY); - areq = sock_kmalloc(sk, areqlen, GFP_KERNEL); + areq = sock_kzalloc(sk, areqlen, GFP_KERNEL); if (unlikely(!areq)) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - memset(areq, 0, areqlen); - ctx->inflight = true; areq->areqlen = areqlen;