Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: avoid a useless call to memset().

[Larry Finger]

On 12/04/2012 07:22 PM, Cyril Roelandt wrote:
> In r8711_wx_get_wap(), make sure we do not call memcpy() on a memory area that
> has just been zeroed by a call to memset().
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c |    3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Larry

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> index 3a64790..2c73319 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> @@ -1131,10 +1131,11 @@ static int r8711_wx_get_wap(struct net_device *dev,
>   	struct ndis_wlan_bssid_ex *pcur_bss = &pmlmepriv->cur_network.network;
>
>   	wrqu->ap_addr.sa_family = ARPHRD_ETHER;
> -	memset(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);
>   	if (check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, _FW_LINKED |
>   	    WIFI_ADHOC_MASTER_STATE|WIFI_AP_STATE)) {
>   		memcpy(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, pcur_bss->MacAddress, ETH_ALEN);
> +	} else {
> +		memset(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);
>   	}
>   	return 0;
>   }

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