linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi:libiscsi: remove unnecessary memset in iscsi_conn

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Date:   Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:26:20 -0500
From:   Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>
To:     Wenchao Hao <haowenchao@...wei.com>, Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com>,
        Chris Leech <cleech@...hat.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:     Wu Bo <wubo40@...wei.com>, open-iscsi@...glegroups.com,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@...wei.com>,
        Feilong Lin <linfeilong@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi:libiscsi: remove unnecessary memset in
 iscsi_conn_setup

On 3/16/22 4:02 AM, Wenchao Hao wrote:
> cc open-iscsi@...glegroups.com linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
> 
> On 2022/3/17 6:09, Wenchao Hao wrote:
>> iscsi_cls_conn is alloced by kzalloc(), the whole iscsi_cls_conn is
>> zero filled already including the dd_data. So it is unnecessary to
>> call memset again.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wenchao Hao <haowenchao@...wei.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Wu Bo <wubo40@...wei.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 1 -
>>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
>> index d09926e6c8a8..cf4211c6500d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c
>> @@ -3045,7 +3045,6 @@ iscsi_conn_setup(struct iscsi_cls_session *cls_session, int dd_size,
>>       if (!cls_conn)
>>           return NULL;
>>       conn = cls_conn->dd_data;
>> -    memset(conn, 0, sizeof(*conn) + dd_size);
>>         conn->dd_data = cls_conn->dd_data + sizeof(*conn);
>>       conn->session = session;
>>
> 

The removal of the memset is ok, but you should resend the original
to the list because the formatting got messed up, and I think Martin
can't track this (The patch doesn't show up in patchwork/lore type of
things).