The function fd_do_prot_fill() is called from two callers fd_do_prot_unmap() and fd_format_prot(). Both the callers initialize the passed buffer with memset to 0xff with its length. Instead of duplicating the memset call, move the memset call to the fd_do_prot_fill(). Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/target_core_file.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_file.c b/drivers/target/target_core_file.c index 5a66854def95..ef4a8e189fba 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_file.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_file.c @@ -498,6 +498,7 @@ fd_do_prot_fill(struct se_device *se_dev, sector_t lba, sector_t nolb, prot_length = nolb * se_dev->prot_length; + memset(buf, 0xff, bufsize); for (prot = 0; prot < prot_length;) { sector_t len = min_t(sector_t, bufsize, prot_length - prot); ssize_t ret = kernel_write(prot_fd, buf, len, &pos); @@ -523,7 +524,6 @@ fd_do_prot_unmap(struct se_cmd *cmd, sector_t lba, sector_t nolb) pr_err("Unable to allocate FILEIO prot buf\n"); return -ENOMEM; } - memset(buf, 0xff, PAGE_SIZE); rc = fd_do_prot_fill(cmd->se_dev, lba, nolb, buf, PAGE_SIZE); @@ -882,7 +882,6 @@ static int fd_format_prot(struct se_device *dev) (unsigned long long)(dev->transport->get_blocks(dev) + 1) * dev->prot_length); - memset(buf, 0xff, unit_size); ret = fd_do_prot_fill(dev, 0, dev->transport->get_blocks(dev) + 1, buf, unit_size); vfree(buf); -- 2.22.1