linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] staging: r8188eu: remove useless memset

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Date:   Fri,  3 Sep 2021 21:18:07 +0300
From:   Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>
To:     Larry.Finger@...inger.net, phil@...lpotter.co.uk,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, straube.linux@...il.com,
        fmdefrancesco@...il.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] staging: r8188eu: remove useless memset

psetkeyparm is kzalloced buffer, there is no need in zeroing it one more
time, since kzalloc had already set memory to 0.

Fixes: 15865124feed ("staging: r8188eu: introduce new core dir for RTL8188eu driver")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c
index bd991d7ed809..37578638bb76 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c
@@ -1690,8 +1690,6 @@ int rtw_set_key(struct adapter *adapter, struct security_priv *psecuritypriv, in
 		goto exit;
 	}
 
-	memset(psetkeyparm, 0, sizeof(struct setkey_parm));
-
 	if (psecuritypriv->dot11AuthAlgrthm == dot11AuthAlgrthm_8021X)
 		psetkeyparm->algorithm = (unsigned char)psecuritypriv->dot118021XGrpPrivacy;
 	else
-- 
2.33.0