commit d30196c4cab8442451794d25a8d8a072dadca2eb Author: Patrick McHardy Date: Wed Nov 19 14:55:11 2008 +0100 netlink: avoid memset of 0 bytes sparse warning A netlink attribute padding of zero triggers this sparse warning: include/linux/netlink.h:245:8: warning: memset with byte count of 0 Avoid the memset when the size parameter is constant and requires no padding. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h index 9ff1b54..51b09a1 100644 --- a/include/linux/netlink.h +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h @@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ __nlmsg_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, u32 seq, int type, int len, int flags) nlh->nlmsg_flags = flags; nlh->nlmsg_pid = pid; nlh->nlmsg_seq = seq; - memset(NLMSG_DATA(nlh) + len, 0, NLMSG_ALIGN(size) - size); + if (!__builtin_constant_p(size) || NLMSG_ALIGN(size) - size != 0) + memset(NLMSG_DATA(nlh) + len, 0, NLMSG_ALIGN(size) - size); return nlh; }