linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext4:memset is needless in ext4_ext_remove

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Date:	Mon, 8 Nov 2010 06:37:52 +0200
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	潘卫平(Peter Pan) <wppan@...flag-linux.com>
Cc:	tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4:memset is needless in ext4_ext_remove_space()

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:19:47AM +0800, "潘卫平(Peter Pan)" wrote:
>
> memset is needless because path is allocated by kzalloc.
>

This is inside a loop and sometimes we do i++ and sometimes i--.  Are
you absolutely positive that path + i isn't initialized?

I haven't followed this code through all the way but my instinct is
that the memset is there for a reason.

regards,
dan carpenter


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