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/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c --- a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c @@ -930,7 +930,6 @@ static int dst_fw_ver(struct dst_state * dprintk(verbose, DST_INFO, 1, "Unsupported Command"); return -1; } - memset(&state->fw_version, '\0', 8); memcpy(&state->fw_version, &state->rxbuffer, 8); dprintk(verbose, DST_ERROR, 1, "Firmware Ver = %x.%x Build = %02x, on %x:%x, %x-%x-20%02x", state->fw_version[0] >> 4, state->fw_version[0] & 0x0f, @@ -1053,7 +1052,6 @@ static int dst_get_tuner_info(struct dst goto force; } } - memset(&state->board_info, '\0', 8); memcpy(&state->board_info, &state->rxbuffer, 8); if (state->type_flags & DST_TYPE_HAS_MULTI_FE) { dprintk(verbose, DST_ERROR, 1, "DST type has TS=188"); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html