Subject: Re: mwifiex: remove unnecessary call to memset

From: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:47:13 +0000 (UTC)

Himanshu Jha <[email-masked]> 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-masked]>

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

85dafc129196 mwifiex: remove unnecessary call to memset

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

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