linux-kernel - [PATCH RESEND 3/5] staging: media: atomisp: Don't do unnecessary zeroing of memory

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Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:53:55 +0100
From:   Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@...il.com>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RESEND 3/5] staging: media: atomisp: Don't do unnecessary zeroing of memory

In a few places in pci/sh_css_params.c, memset is used to zero memory
immediately before it is freed. As none of these structs appear to
contain sensitive information, just remove the calls to memset.

Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_params.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_params.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_params.c
index 2c67c23b3700..24fc497bd491 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_params.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_params.c
@@ -4378,7 +4378,6 @@ ia_css_3a_statistics_free(struct ia_css_3a_statistics *me)
 	if (me) {
 		kvfree(me->rgby_data);
 		kvfree(me->data);
-		memset(me, 0, sizeof(struct ia_css_3a_statistics));
 		kvfree(me);
 	}
 }
@@ -4417,7 +4416,6 @@ ia_css_dvs_statistics_free(struct ia_css_dvs_statistics *me)
 	if (me) {
 		kvfree(me->hor_proj);
 		kvfree(me->ver_proj);
-		memset(me, 0, sizeof(struct ia_css_dvs_statistics));
 		kvfree(me);
 	}
 }
@@ -4459,7 +4457,6 @@ ia_css_dvs_coefficients_free(struct ia_css_dvs_coefficients *me)
 	if (me) {
 		kvfree(me->hor_coefs);
 		kvfree(me->ver_coefs);
-		memset(me, 0, sizeof(struct ia_css_dvs_coefficients));
 		kvfree(me);
 	}
 }
@@ -4551,7 +4548,6 @@ ia_css_dvs2_statistics_free(struct ia_css_dvs2_statistics *me)
 		kvfree(me->ver_prod.odd_imag);
 		kvfree(me->ver_prod.even_real);
 		kvfree(me->ver_prod.even_imag);
-		memset(me, 0, sizeof(struct ia_css_dvs2_statistics));
 		kvfree(me);
 	}
 }
@@ -4635,7 +4631,6 @@ ia_css_dvs2_coefficients_free(struct ia_css_dvs2_coefficients *me)
 		kvfree(me->ver_coefs.odd_imag);
 		kvfree(me->ver_coefs.even_real);
 		kvfree(me->ver_coefs.even_imag);
-		memset(me, 0, sizeof(struct ia_css_dvs2_coefficients));
 		kvfree(me);
 	}
 }
@@ -4710,7 +4705,6 @@ ia_css_dvs2_6axis_config_free(struct ia_css_dvs_6axis_config *dvs_6axis_config)
 		kvfree(dvs_6axis_config->ycoords_y);
 		kvfree(dvs_6axis_config->xcoords_uv);
 		kvfree(dvs_6axis_config->ycoords_uv);
-		memset(dvs_6axis_config, 0, sizeof(struct ia_css_dvs_6axis_config));
 		kvfree(dvs_6axis_config);
 	}
 }
-- 
2.28.0