netdev - [PATCH] batman-adv: Omit unnecessary memset of netdev private data

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Message-Id: <20170317110859.9273-1-tklauser@distanz.ch>
Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:08:59 +0100
From:   Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
To:     Marek Lindner <mareklindner@...mailbox.ch>,
        Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>,
        Antonio Quartulli <a@...table.cc>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] batman-adv: Omit unnecessary memset of netdev private data

The memory for netdev_priv is allocated using kzalloc in alloc_netdev
(or alloc_netdev_mq respectively) so there is no need to set it to 0
again.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
---
 net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
index 5d099b2e6cfc..8226495c6664 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
@@ -972,8 +972,6 @@ static void batadv_softif_free(struct net_device *dev)
  */
 static void batadv_softif_init_early(struct net_device *dev)
 {
-	struct batadv_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
-
 	ether_setup(dev);
 
 	dev->netdev_ops = &batadv_netdev_ops;
@@ -990,8 +988,6 @@ static void batadv_softif_init_early(struct net_device *dev)
 	eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
 
 	dev->ethtool_ops = &batadv_ethtool_ops;
-
-	memset(priv, 0, sizeof(*priv));
 }
 
 struct net_device *batadv_softif_create(struct net *net, const char *name)
-- 
2.11.0