linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Drop redundant memset

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Date:   Wed, 1 Jun 2022 17:30:22 +0800
From:   Haowen Bai <baihaowen@...zu.com>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     Haowen Bai <baihaowen@...zu.com>, <linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Drop redundant memset

The region set by the call to memset is immediately overwritten by the
subsequent call to memcpy. So we drop redundant memset.

Signed-off-by: Haowen Bai <baihaowen@...zu.com>
---
 drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c
index 7ba75f73e47e..17f6bcbeebf4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ u8 rtw_do_join(struct adapter *padapter)
 
 				pibss = padapter->registrypriv.dev_network.MacAddress;
 
-				memset(&pdev_network->Ssid, 0, sizeof(struct ndis_802_11_ssid));
 				memcpy(&pdev_network->Ssid, &pmlmepriv->assoc_ssid, sizeof(struct ndis_802_11_ssid));
 
 				rtw_update_registrypriv_dev_network(padapter);
-- 
2.7.4