This patch reduces a call to memset(,0) by replacing
a kmalloc call with a kzalloc call.

Signed-off-by: Robert Eshleman <bobbyeshle...@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/ether3.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/ether3.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/ether3.c
index d1bb73bf9914..7456cf08a48f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/ether3.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/ether3.c
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ ether3_addr(char *addr, struct expansion_card *ec)
 static int
 ether3_ramtest(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char byte)
 {
-       unsigned char *buffer = kmalloc(RX_END, GFP_KERNEL);
+       unsigned char *buffer = kzalloc(RX_END, GFP_KERNEL);
        int i,ret = 0;
        int max_errors = 4;
        int bad = -1;
@@ -231,7 +231,6 @@ ether3_ramtest(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char byte)
        if (!buffer)
                return 1;
 
-       memset(buffer, byte, RX_END);
        ether3_setbuffer(dev, buffer_write, 0);
        ether3_writebuffer(dev, buffer, TX_END);
        ether3_setbuffer(dev, buffer_write, RX_START);
-- 
2.20.1

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