linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] pstore/zone: Don't clear memory twice

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Date: Sat,  9 Mar 2024 12:33:51 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>,
	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pstore/zone: Don't clear memory twice

On Sat, 09 Mar 2024 09:24:27 +0100, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> There is no need to call memset(..., 0, ...) on memory allocated by
> kcalloc(). It is already zeroed.
> 
> Remove the redundant call.
> 
> 

Applied to for-next/pstore, thanks!

[1/1] pstore/zone: Don't clear memory twice
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/c8d25d696f52

Take care,

-- 
Kees Cook