Re: [PATCH] ext4:memset is needless in ext4_ext_remove_space()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Sun Nov 07 2010 - 23:38:15 EST


On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:19:47AM +0800, "æåå(Peter Pan)" wrote:
>
> memset is needless because path is allocated by kzalloc.
>

This is inside a loop and sometimes we do i++ and sometimes i--. Are
you absolutely positive that path + i isn't initialized?

I haven't followed this code through all the way but my instinct is
that the memset is there for a reason.

regards,
dan carpenter


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