In current code loop_info64_from_old() is only called from the one caller loop_set_status_old(). Initialize the info64 local variable to zero before we pass it to the loop_info64_from_old() so that we can get rid of the memset in the loop_info64_from_old(). Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/loop.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index 2029ca399ea3..62f622791fb5 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -1460,7 +1460,6 @@ static int loop_get_status(struct loop_device *lo, static void loop_info64_from_old(const struct loop_info *info, struct loop_info64 *info64) { - memset(info64, 0, sizeof(*info64)); info64->lo_number = info->lo_number; info64->lo_device = info->lo_device; info64->lo_inode = info->lo_inode; @@ -1513,7 +1512,7 @@ static int loop_set_status_old(struct loop_device *lo, const struct loop_info __user *arg) { struct loop_info info; - struct loop_info64 info64; + struct loop_info64 info64 = { }; if (copy_from_user(&info, arg, sizeof (struct loop_info))) return -EFAULT; -- 2.22.1