linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] qed: remove unnecessary call to memset

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Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:02:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     himanshujha199640@...il.com
Cc:     Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com, Ariel.Elior@...ium.com,
        everest-linux-l2@...ium.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qed: remove unnecessary call to memset

From: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 16:49:22 +0530

> call to memset to assign 0 value immediately after allocating
> memory with kzalloc is unnecesaary as kzalloc allocates the memory
> filled with 0 value.
> 
> Semantic patch used to resolve this issue:
> 
> @@
> expression e,e2; constant c;
> statement S;
> @@
> 
>   e = kzalloc(e2, c);
>   if(e == NULL) S
> - memset(e, 0, e2);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>

Applied.