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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Bilel DRIRA <bilel.dr@gmail.com>,
	eng.douglasfigueiredo@gmail.com, matt@ninezulu.com,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, raghav3276@gmail.com,
	tapaswenipathak@gmail.com, artemiyv@acm.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: Fix memset warning found by sparse
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 17:24:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1434673443.2689.115.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150618230407.GD32238@kroah.com>

On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 16:04 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 06:49:51PM +0100, Bilel DRIRA wrote:
> > This patch fixes the following sparse warnings:
[]
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
[]
> > @@ -245,10 +245,12 @@ static int prism2_fwapply(const struct ihex_binrec *rfptr,
[]
> > -	memset(s3data, 0, sizeof(s3data));
> > +	for (s3data_count = 0; s3data_count < S3DATA_MAX; s3data_count++)
> > +		memset(&s3data[s3data_count], 0, sizeof(struct s3datarec));
> 
> You are doing the exact same thing here that the original code did, so
> why change it?
> 
> That sparse warning is just a hint, I don't see anything wrong here with
> the original code, sorry.

Greg's right.

A possible improvement would be to malloc/free memory
as necessary instead of using large static buffers.



      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-19  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-18 17:49 [PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: Fix memset warning found by sparse Bilel DRIRA
2015-06-18 23:04 ` Greg KH
2015-06-19  0:24   ` Joe Perches [this message]

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