linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] media: bt8xx: avoid a useless memset

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:09:34 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        mchehab@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rppt@...nel.org,
        hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] media: bt8xx: avoid a useless memset

On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 15:51 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Avoid a memset after a call to 'dma_alloc_coherent()'.
> This is useless since
> commit 518a2f1925c3 ("dma-mapping: zero memory returned from dma_alloc_*")
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/btcx-risc.c b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/btcx-risc.c
[]
> @@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ int btcx_riscmem_alloc(struct pci_dev *pci,
>  		dprintk("btcx: riscmem alloc [%d] dma=%lx cpu=%p size=%d\n",
>  			memcnt, (unsigned long)dma, cpu, size);
>  	}
> -	memset(risc->cpu,0,risc->size);
>  	return 0;
>  }

Likely NAK.

This is not useless as risc->cpu may be reused
and the alloc may not have been done.