The patch titled Subject: cciss: remove unneeded memset() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was cciss-remove-useless-set-memory-to-zero-use-memset.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: cciss: remove unneeded memset() The memory return by kzalloc() or kmem_cache_zalloc() has already be set to zero, so remove useless memset(0). spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem. (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/cciss.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-remove-useless-set-memory-to-zero-use-memset drivers/block/cciss.c --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-remove-useless-set-memory-to-zero-use-memset +++ a/drivers/block/cciss.c @@ -5198,7 +5198,6 @@ 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(h, CCISS_CACHE_FLUSH, flush_buf, 4, 0, CTLR_LUNID, TYPE_CMD); kfree(flush_buf); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch kdump-remove-unneeded-include.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html