Re: [PATCH] cxgb4: Remove redundant memset before memcpy

From: Shyam Saini
Date: Fri Jan 13 2017 - 19:55:52 EST


On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 04:57:14PM +0100, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> On 2017-01-13 at 10:52:49 +0100, Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The region set by the call to memset, immediately overwritten by the
> > subsequent call to memcpy and thus makes the memset redundant
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.c | 3 ---
> > 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.c
> > index cbd68a8..5725693 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.c
> > @@ -398,7 +398,6 @@ static struct sched_class *t4_sched_class_lookup(struct port_info *pi,
> > struct ch_sched_params tp;
> >
> > memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
>
> This memset is also redundant because info is memcpy()'ed to before
> being used in the loop (and it isn't used outside of the loop).
Thanks a lot for pointing out that.

I'll remove that too and resend it.

Regards,
Shyam