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Date:   Tue, 14 Jul 2020 11:57:23 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Suraj Upadhyay <usuraj35@...il.com>,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc:     manishc@...vell.com, GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] staging: qlge: qlge_ethtool: Remove one byte memset.

On Mon, 2020-07-13 at 17:17 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 05:52:22PM +0530, Suraj Upadhyay wrote:
> > Use direct assignment instead of using memset with just one byte as an
> > argument.
> > Issue found by checkpatch.pl.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Suraj Upadhyay <usuraj35@...il.com>
> > ---
> > Hii Maintainers,
> > 	Please correct me if I am wrong here.
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
> > index 16fcdefa9687..d44b2dae9213 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
> > @@ -516,8 +516,8 @@ static void ql_create_lb_frame(struct sk_buff *skb,
> >  	memset(skb->data, 0xFF, frame_size);
> >  	frame_size &= ~1;
> >  	memset(&skb->data[frame_size / 2], 0xAA, frame_size / 2 - 1);
> > -	memset(&skb->data[frame_size / 2 + 10], 0xBE, 1);
> > -	memset(&skb->data[frame_size / 2 + 12], 0xAF, 1);
> > +	skb->data[frame_size / 2 + 10] = (unsigned char)0xBE;
> > +	skb->data[frame_size / 2 + 12] = (unsigned char)0xAF;
> 
> Remove the casting.
> 
> I guess this is better than the original because now it looks like
> ql_check_lb_frame().  It's still really weird looking though.

There are several of these in the intel drivers too:

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c:       memset(&skb->data[frame_size / 2 + 10], 0xBE, 1);
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c:       memset(&skb->data[frame_size / 2 + 12], 0xAF, 1);
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c:    memset(&skb->data[frame_size / 2 + 10], 0xBE, 1);
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c:    memset(&skb->data[frame_size / 2 + 12], 0xAF, 1);
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c:   memset(&skb->data[frame_size + 10], 0xBE, 1);
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c:   memset(&skb->data[frame_size + 12], 0xAF, 1);
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c:       memset(&skb->data[frame_size + 10], 0xBE, 1);
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c:       memset(&skb->data[frame_size + 12], 0xAF, 1);
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c:    memset(&skb->data[frame_size / 2 + 10], 0xBE, 1);
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c:    memset(&skb->data[frame_size / 2 + 12], 0xAF, 1);