linux-kernel - Re: drm/amd/powerplay: remove redundant memset

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:22:07 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@...il.com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        David Zhou <David1.Zhou@....com>,
        Evan Quan <evan.quan@....com>, Rex Zhu <rex.zhu@....com>
Subject: Re: drm/amd/powerplay: remove redundant memset

> kzalloc has already zeroed the memory.
> So the memset is unneeded.

See also a previous patch:
drm/amd/powerplay: Delete a redundant memory setting in vega20_set_default_od8_setttings()
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/de3f6a5e-8ac4-bc8e-0d0c-3a4a5db283e9@web.de/
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1089691/
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/17/460

Regards,
Markus