linux-kernel - [tip:irq/core] genirq: Remove unnecessary memset() calls

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Message-ID: <tip-ff5b706f5189fe8d2a6fd576b491b769ec1d29d3@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:46:30 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Weongyo Jeong <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, weongyo.linux@...il.com
Subject: [tip:irq/core] genirq: Remove unnecessary memset() calls

Commit-ID:  ff5b706f5189fe8d2a6fd576b491b769ec1d29d3
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ff5b706f5189fe8d2a6fd576b491b769ec1d29d3
Author:     Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.linux@...il.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:15:03 -0700
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:07:50 +0200

genirq: Remove unnecessary memset() calls

sprintf() and snprintf() implementation of kernel guarantees that
its result is terminated with null byte if size is larger than 0. So we
don't need to call memset() at all.

Signed-off-by: Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.linux@...il.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459451703-5744-1-git-send-email-weongyo.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

---
 kernel/irq/proc.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/irq/proc.c b/kernel/irq/proc.c
index 50a8f28..f30425d 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/proc.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/proc.c
@@ -311,7 +311,6 @@ void register_handler_proc(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *action)
 					!name_unique(irq, action))
 		return;
 
-	memset(name, 0, MAX_NAMELEN);
 	snprintf(name, MAX_NAMELEN, "%s", action->name);
 
 	/* create /proc/irq/1234/handler/ */
@@ -340,7 +339,6 @@ void register_irq_proc(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc)
 	if (desc->dir)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
-	memset(name, 0, MAX_NAMELEN);
 	sprintf(name, "%d", irq);
 
 	/* create /proc/irq/1234 */
@@ -386,7 +384,6 @@ void unregister_irq_proc(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc)
 #endif
 	remove_proc_entry("spurious", desc->dir);
 
-	memset(name, 0, MAX_NAMELEN);
 	sprintf(name, "%u", irq);
 	remove_proc_entry(name, root_irq_dir);
 }