netdev - [PATCH] mwifiex: remove unnecessary call to memset

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Date:   Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:16:04 +0530
From:   Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
To:     amitkarwar@...il.com
Cc:     nishants@...vell.com, gbhat@...vell.com, huxm@...vell.com,
        kvalo@...eaurora.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: remove unnecessary call to memset

call to memset to assign 0 value immediately after allocating
memory with kzalloc is unnecesaary as kzalloc allocates the memory
filled with 0 value.

Semantic patch used to resolve this issue:

@@
expression e,e2; constant c;
statement S;
@@

  e = kzalloc(e2, c);
  if(e == NULL) S
- memset(e, 0, e2);

Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
index c9d41ed..8838b88 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
@@ -1936,8 +1936,6 @@ mwifiex_active_scan_req_for_passive_chan(struct mwifiex_private *priv)
 	if (!user_scan_cfg)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	memset(user_scan_cfg, 0, sizeof(*user_scan_cfg));
-
 	for (id = 0; id < MWIFIEX_USER_SCAN_CHAN_MAX; id++) {
 		if (!priv->hidden_chan[id].chan_number)
 			break;
-- 
2.7.4