The function clear_siginfo is just a nice wrapper around memset so this results in no functional change. This change makes mistakes a little more difficult and it makes it clearer what is going on. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/kernel/trap.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 4 ++-- kernel/seccomp.c | 2 +- kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/trap.c b/arch/um/kernel/trap.c index 428644175956..b2b02df9896e 100644 --- a/arch/um/kernel/trap.c +++ b/arch/um/kernel/trap.c @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ void relay_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *si, struct uml_pt_regs *regs) arch_examine_signal(sig, regs); - memset(&clean_si, 0, sizeof(clean_si)); + clear_siginfo(&clean_si); clean_si.si_signo = si->si_signo; clean_si.si_errno = si->si_errno; clean_si.si_code = si->si_code; diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c index a3fad4ec9870..3f9bd3e4c373 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ static void async_completed(struct urb *urb) as->status = urb->status; signr = as->signr; if (signr) { - memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo)); + clear_siginfo(&sinfo); sinfo.si_signo = as->signr; sinfo.si_errno = as->status; sinfo.si_code = SI_ASYNCIO; @@ -2613,7 +2613,7 @@ static void usbdev_remove(struct usb_device *udev) wake_up_all(&ps->wait); list_del_init(&ps->list); if (ps->discsignr) { - memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo)); + clear_siginfo(&sinfo); sinfo.si_signo = ps->discsignr; sinfo.si_errno = EPIPE; sinfo.si_code = SI_ASYNCIO; diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c index 5f0dfb2abb8d..3153c9ea51bf 100644 --- a/kernel/seccomp.c +++ b/kernel/seccomp.c @@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ void put_seccomp_filter(struct task_struct *tsk) static void seccomp_init_siginfo(siginfo_t *info, int syscall, int reason) { - memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info)); + clear_siginfo(info); info->si_signo = SIGSYS; info->si_code = SYS_SECCOMP; info->si_call_addr = (void __user *)KSTK_EIP(current); diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c index ec999f32c840..75043046914e 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void) kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr); return NULL; } - memset(&tmr->sigq->info, 0, sizeof(siginfo_t)); + clear_siginfo(&tmr->sigq->info); return tmr; } -- 2.14.1