use more appropriate alternatives to malloc()

Use calloc to request cleared memory instead.
Kernel and libc conspire to make this more efficient.

Also, replace one malloc() + strcpy() with strdup().

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/udev/udev-event.c b/udev/udev-event.c
index 007a14ebe9..05bb022d1b 100644
--- a/udev/udev-event.c
+++ b/udev/udev-event.c
@@ -34,10 +34,9 @@ struct udev_event *udev_event_new(struct udev_device *dev)
 {
 	struct udev_event *event;
 
-	event = malloc(sizeof(struct udev_event));
+	event = calloc(1, sizeof(struct udev_event));
 	if (event == NULL)
 		return NULL;
-	memset(event, 0x00, sizeof(struct udev_event));
 
 	event->dev = dev;
 	event->udev = udev_device_get_udev(dev);