linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 06/10] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: remove unnecessary memset

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Date:   Tue, 13 Aug 2019 11:54:35 +0300
From:   Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     joe@...ches.com, andrew@...n.ch, ruxandra.radulescu@....com,
        Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 06/10] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: remove unnecessary memset

The ethtool core already zeroes the memory before calling
.get_ethtool_stats() thus making the memset unnecessary. Remove it.

Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
---
Changes in v2:
 - added Reported-by tag

 drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw-ethtool.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw-ethtool.c b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw-ethtool.c
index 12e33a3a1bf1..0f9f8345e534 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw-ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw-ethtool.c
@@ -149,9 +149,6 @@ static void ethsw_ethtool_get_stats(struct net_device *netdev,
 	struct ethsw_port_priv *port_priv = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	int i, err;
 
-	memset(data, 0,
-	       sizeof(u64) * ETHSW_NUM_COUNTERS);
-
 	for (i = 0; i < ETHSW_NUM_COUNTERS; i++) {
 		err = dpsw_if_get_counter(port_priv->ethsw_data->mc_io, 0,
 					  port_priv->ethsw_data->dpsw_handle,
-- 
1.9.1