2017-09-11 12:46:21

by Himanshu Jha

Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: remove unnecessary call to memset

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 <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
index c9d41ed..8838b88 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
@@ -1936,8 +1936,6 @@ mwifiex_active_scan_req_for_passive_chan(struct mwifiex_private *priv)
if (!user_scan_cfg)
return -ENOMEM;

- memset(user_scan_cfg, 0, sizeof(*user_scan_cfg));
-
for (id = 0; id < MWIFIEX_USER_SCAN_CHAN_MAX; id++) {
if (!priv->hidden_chan[id].chan_number)
break;
--
2.7.4

2017-09-20 12:47:14

by Kalle Valo

Subject: Re: mwifiex: remove unnecessary call to memset

Himanshu Jha <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

85dafc129196 mwifiex: remove unnecessary call to memset

--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9947331/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches