Re: [PATCH] [media] netup_unidvb: Remove a useless memset

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 08:20 +0100, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> This memory is allocated using kzalloc so there is no need to call
> memset(..., 0, ...)
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/netup_unidvb/netup_unidvb_core.c b/drivers/media/pci/netup_unidvb/netup_unidvb_core.c
[]
> @@ -774,7 +774,6 @@ static int netup_unidvb_initdev(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
>  
>  	if (!ndev)
>  		goto dev_alloc_err;
> -	memset(ndev, 0, sizeof(*ndev));
>  	ndev->old_fw = old_firmware;
>  	ndev->wq = create_singlethread_workqueue(NETUP_UNIDVB_NAME);
>  	if (!ndev->wq) {

It's unusual to not see the alloc above the if

Perhaps it'd be more standard to do something like:
---
diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/netup_unidvb/netup_unidvb_core.c b/drivers/media/pci/netup_unidvb/netup_unidvb_core.c
index 525ebfe..c94cecd 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/netup_unidvb/netup_unidvb_core.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/netup_unidvb/netup_unidvb_core.c
@@ -771,10 +771,9 @@ static int netup_unidvb_initdev(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
 
 	/* allocate device context */
 	ndev = kzalloc(sizeof(*ndev), GFP_KERNEL);
-
 	if (!ndev)
 		goto dev_alloc_err;
-	memset(ndev, 0, sizeof(*ndev));
+
 	ndev->old_fw = old_firmware;
 	ndev->wq = create_singlethread_workqueue(NETUP_UNIDVB_NAME);
 	if (!ndev->wq) {