linux-kernel - [PATCH 6/8] firmware: vpd: do not clear statically allocated data

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 17:07:46 -0700
From:   Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@...gle.com>,
        Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] firmware: vpd: do not clear statically allocated data

ro_vpd and rw_vpd are static module-scope variables that are guaranteed
to be initialized with zeroes, there is no need for explicit memset().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c b/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
index 3463b8037ed8..78945729388e 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
@@ -317,9 +317,6 @@ static int __init vpd_platform_init(void)
 	if (!vpd_kobj)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	memset(&ro_vpd, 0, sizeof(ro_vpd));
-	memset(&rw_vpd, 0, sizeof(rw_vpd));
-
 	platform_driver_register(&vpd_driver);
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.13.0.219.gdb65acc882-goog