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

From: Brian King <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:37:06 -0500

Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	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.

-Brian

> 
> Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[email-masked]>
> 
>  drivers/net/ibmveth.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 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 20:34:44.000000000 +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 +997,7 @@ static int __devinit ibmveth_probe(struc
>  	SET_MODULE_OWNER(netdev);
> 
>  	adapter = netdev->priv;
> -	memset(adapter, 0, sizeof(adapter));
> +	memset(adapter, 0, sizeof(*adapter));
>  	dev->dev.driver_data = netdev;
> 
>  	adapter->vdev = dev;
> -
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Brian King
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