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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	target-devel <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
	Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@qlogic.com>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>,
	Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>,
	James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qla2xxx: Don't memset buffer unless debug level is enabled
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:12:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED736EB.4090201@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322690639-20756-1-git-send-email-nab@linux-iscsi.org>

On 11/30/2011 11:03 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_dbg.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_dbg.c
> index 07372de..cc32ec8 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_dbg.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_dbg.c
> @@ -1676,11 +1676,11 @@ ql_dbg(uint32_t level, scsi_qla_host_t *vha, int32_t id, char *msg, ...) {
>   	uint32_t len;
>   	struct pci_dev *pdev = NULL;
>
> -	memset(pbuf, 0, QL_DBG_BUF_LEN);
> -
>   	va_start(ap, msg);
>
>   	if ((level&  ql2xextended_error_logging) == level) {
> +		memset(pbuf, 0, QL_DBG_BUF_LEN);
> +		

512bytes on the stack is brave. Anyway, why do you memset the whole
buffer? As far the string processing is concerned, setting the first
byte to zero is enough.

Sebastian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-01  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-30 22:03 [PATCH] qla2xxx: Don't memset buffer unless debug level is enabled Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-11-30 22:33 ` Chad Dupuis
2011-12-01  8:12 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2011-12-01  9:21   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-12-01 18:01     ` Chad Dupuis
2011-12-01 18:07       ` James Bottomley
2011-12-01 18:43         ` Chad Dupuis

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