linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: rtllib

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Message-ID: <20190618180431.GA8170@hari-Inspiron-1545>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:34:31 +0530
From:   Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Hildo Guillardi Júnior <hildogjr@...il.com>,
        Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: rtllib_module: 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/rtl8192e/rtllib_module.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_module.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_module.c
index bb13b1d..64d9fee 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_module.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_module.c
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ struct net_device *alloc_rtllib(int sizeof_priv)
 		return NULL;
 	}
 	ieee = (struct rtllib_device *)netdev_priv_rsl(dev);
-	memset(ieee, 0, sizeof(struct rtllib_device) + sizeof_priv);
 	ieee->dev = dev;
 
 	err = rtllib_networks_allocate(ieee);
-- 
2.7.4