Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/ibmveth.c: memset fix

[Brian King]

Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:
>>>> 	Looks like memset() is zeroing wrong nr of bytes.
>>> Good catch, however, I think we can just remove this memset altogether
>>> since the memory gets allocated via kzalloc.
>> Correct, that memset() is superfluous.
> 
> Ok. Then this should do it.

Acked-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>  drivers/net/ibmveth.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2007-08-01 08:43:46.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2007-08-06 23:32:13.000000000 +0200
> @@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ static int __devinit ibmveth_probe(struc
>  {
>  	int rc, i;
>  	struct net_device *netdev;
> -	struct ibmveth_adapter *adapter = NULL;
> +	struct ibmveth_adapter *adapter;
> 
>  	unsigned char *mac_addr_p;
>  	unsigned int *mcastFilterSize_p;
> @@ -997,7 +997,6 @@ static int __devinit ibmveth_probe(struc
>  	SET_MODULE_OWNER(netdev);
> 
>  	adapter = netdev->priv;
> -	memset(adapter, 0, sizeof(adapter));
>  	dev->dev.driver_data = netdev;
> 
>  	adapter->vdev = dev;
> -
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