linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: Remove redundant memset

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:25:16 +0530
From:   Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        John Whitmore <johnfwhitmore@...il.com>,
        Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>,
        Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@...il.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: Remove redundant memset

alloc_etherdev function internally calls kvzalloc . So we may not need
explicit memset after this call.

Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
index 3532ea9..4a6c3f6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ struct net_device *alloc_ieee80211(int sizeof_priv)
 	}
 
 	ieee = netdev_priv(dev);
-	memset(ieee, 0, sizeof(struct ieee80211_device) + sizeof_priv);
 	ieee->dev = dev;
 
 	err = ieee80211_networks_allocate(ieee);
-- 
2.7.4