[PATCH RESEND 5/6] crypto: algif_rng - use sock_kzalloc in rng_accept_parent
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: 2026-05-27 08:26:02
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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 rng_accept_parent(). Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> --- crypto/algif_rng.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/algif_rng.c b/crypto/algif_rng.c
index a9fb492e929a..f609463f9e14 100644
--- a/crypto/algif_rng.c
+++ b/crypto/algif_rng.c@@ -244,11 +244,10 @@ static int rng_accept_parent(void *private, struct sock *sk) struct alg_sock *ask = alg_sk(sk); unsigned int len = sizeof(*ctx); - ctx = sock_kmalloc(sk, len, GFP_KERNEL); + ctx = sock_kzalloc(sk, len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!ctx) return -ENOMEM; - memset(ctx, 0, len); ctx->len = len; /*