linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] JFS: Remove redundant 0 value initialization

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Message-ID: <88fd2a23-ecdb-47ec-9328-62b9bda7bff4@web.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:16:11 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Liao Yuanhong <liaoyuanhong@...o.com>,
 jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] JFS: Remove redundant 0 value initialization

> The jfs_log struct is already zeroed by kzalloc(). It's redundant to
> initialize dummy_log->base to 0.

See also once more:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.17-rc2#n94

Regards,
Markus