linux-kernel - [PATCH] RDMA/bnxt_re: Remove a redundant 'memset'

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Date:   Sun,  8 Mar 2020 07:54:42 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     selvin.xavier@...adcom.com, devesh.sharma@...adcom.com,
        somnath.kotur@...adcom.com, sriharsha.basavapatna@...adcom.com,
        dledford@...hat.com, jgg@...pe.ca
Cc:     linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] RDMA/bnxt_re: Remove a redundant 'memset'

'wqe' is already zeroed at the top of the 'while' loop, just a few lines
below, and is not used outside of the loop.
So there is no need to zero it here as well.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c
index ad3e524187e3..15494ca33092 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c
@@ -2475,7 +2475,6 @@ static int bnxt_re_post_send_shadow_qp(struct bnxt_re_dev *rdev,
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&qp->sq_lock, flags);
-	memset(&wqe, 0, sizeof(wqe));
 	while (wr) {
 		/* House keeping */
 		memset(&wqe, 0, sizeof(wqe));
-- 
2.20.1