buffer: Use calloc to allocate a zero'ed buffer

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schneider <asn@cryptomilk.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/buffer.c b/src/buffer.c
index 9897f391..61b07e9a 100644
--- a/src/buffer.c
+++ b/src/buffer.c
@@ -84,12 +84,12 @@ static void buffer_verify(ssh_buffer buf){
  * @return A newly initialized SSH buffer, NULL on error.
  */
 struct ssh_buffer_struct *ssh_buffer_new(void) {
-  struct ssh_buffer_struct *buf = malloc(sizeof(struct ssh_buffer_struct));
-
+  struct ssh_buffer_struct *buf =
+      calloc(1, sizeof(struct ssh_buffer_struct));
   if (buf == NULL) {
     return NULL;
   }
-  memset(buf, 0, sizeof(struct ssh_buffer_struct));
+
   buffer_verify(buf);
   return buf;
 }