linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap: Remove redundant call to memset

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Date:   Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:05:27 +0530
From:   Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>,
        Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@...il.com>,
        Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@...il.com>,
        Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>,
        Anirudh Rayabharam <anirudh.rayabharam@...il.com>,
        Nishka Dasgupta <nishka.dasgupta@...oo.com>,
        Hardik Singh Rathore <hardiksingh.k@...il.com>,
        Mamta Shukla <mamtashukla555@...il.com>,
        Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@...il.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap: Remove redundant call to
 memset

rtw_zmalloc is internally doing memset . So there is no need to call memset
again.

Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap.c
index 87b201a..df055b8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap.c
@@ -1502,8 +1502,6 @@ static int rtw_ap_set_key(
 		goto exit;
 	}
 
-	memset(psetkeyparm, 0, sizeof(struct setkey_parm));
-
 	psetkeyparm->keyid = (u8)keyid;
 	if (is_wep_enc(alg))
 		padapter->securitypriv.key_mask |= BIT(psetkeyparm->keyid);
-- 
2.7.4