From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> memset of 0 is not needed after kzalloc The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression x; statement S; @@ x = kzalloc(...); if (x == NULL) S ... when != x -memset(x,0,...);// </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/cciss.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c @@ -4379,7 +4379,6 @@ static void cciss_shutdown(struct pci_de return; } /* write all data in the battery backed cache to disk */ - memset(flush_buf, 0, 4); return_code = sendcmd_withirq(CCISS_CACHE_FLUSH, h->ctlr, flush_buf, 4, 0, CTLR_LUNID, TYPE_CMD); kfree(flush_buf); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
