From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> The region set by the call to memset is immediately overwritten by the subsequent call to memcpy. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression e1,e2,e3,e4; @@ - memset(e1,e2,e3); memcpy(e1,e4,e3); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c b/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c --- a/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c +++ b/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c @@ -955,7 +955,6 @@ int zfLnxCencSendMsg(struct sock *netlin /*ÌîдÊý¾Ý±¨Ïà¹ØÐÅÏ¢*/ nlh = NLMSG_PUT(skb, 0, 0, WAI_K_MSG, size-sizeof(*nlh)); pos = NLMSG_DATA(nlh); - memset(pos, 0, len); /*´«Êäµ½Óû§¿Õ¼äµÄÊý¾Ý*/ memcpy(pos, msg, len);