netdev - [PATCH 3/4] batman-adv: Drop initialization of flexible ethtool_link

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Date:   Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:14:53 +0200
From:   Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
To:     kuba@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org,
        Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>,
        Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] batman-adv: Drop initialization of flexible ethtool_link_ksettings

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>

The commit 94dfc73e7cf4 ("treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with
flexible-array members") changed various structures from using 0-length
arrays to flexible arrays

  net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c: note: in included file:
  ./include/linux/ethtool.h:148:38: warning: nested flexible array
  net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c:128:9: warning: using sizeof on a flexible structure

In theory, this could be worked around by using {} as initializer for the
variable on the stack. But this variable doesn't has to be initialized at
all by the caller of __ethtool_get_link_ksettings - everything will be
initialized by the callee when no error occurs.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
---
 net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
index b6db999abf75..f1741fbfb617 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
@@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ static u32 batadv_v_elp_get_throughput(struct batadv_hardif_neigh_node *neigh)
 	/* if not a wifi interface, check if this device provides data via
 	 * ethtool (e.g. an Ethernet adapter)
 	 */
-	memset(&link_settings, 0, sizeof(link_settings));
 	rtnl_lock();
 	ret = __ethtool_get_link_ksettings(hard_iface->net_dev, &link_settings);
 	rtnl_unlock();
-- 
2.30.2