linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: remove unnecessary assignment in ext4_htree_store

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Date:   Fri,  6 Dec 2019 13:43:17 +0800
From:   Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@...ernel.net>
To:     tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@...ernel.net>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: remove unnecessary assignment in ext4_htree_store_dirent()

We have allocated memory using kzalloc() so don't have
to set 0 again in last byte.

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@...ernel.net>
---
 fs/ext4/dir.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/dir.c b/fs/ext4/dir.c
index 9fdd2b269d61..5923c9147ae7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/dir.c
@@ -458,7 +458,6 @@ int ext4_htree_store_dirent(struct file *dir_file, __u32 hash,
 	new_fn->name_len = ent_name->len;
 	new_fn->file_type = dirent->file_type;
 	memcpy(new_fn->name, ent_name->name, ent_name->len);
-	new_fn->name[ent_name->len] = 0;
 
 	while (*p) {
 		parent = *p;
-- 
2.20.1