Re: [PATCH 1/4] ext4: remove unsafe and unnecessary memset()

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On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Guo Chao wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:41:43 +0800
> From: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tytso@xxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] ext4: remove unsafe and unnecessary memset()
> 
> We memset this page before checking whether it's valid. But we need
> not memset zeroed page at all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/super.c |    1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index ad6cd8a..66a4e20 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -3206,7 +3206,6 @@ int ext4_calculate_overhead(struct super_block *sb)
>  	ext4_fsblk_t overhead = 0;
>  	char *buf = (char *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
>  
> -	memset(buf, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
>  	if (!buf)
>  		return -ENOMEM;

Good catch, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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