Re: [PATCH] qed: remove unnecessary call to memset

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Sep 15 2017 - 17:02:28 EST


From: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 16:49:22 +0530

> 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@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.