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* Remove bogus memset from cpqfc driver.
@ 2004-09-03 20:47 Dave Jones
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From: Dave Jones @ 2004-09-03 20:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: Linux Kernel

Not that this driver compiles, but coverity picked up this nonsense.
If the pci_alloc_consistent fails, we go boom.
Amusingly, after the ==NULL check, is an identical memset.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

--- linux-2.6.8/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTScontrol.c~	2004-09-03 21:44:41.742800408 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.8/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTScontrol.c	2004-09-03 21:45:37.163375200 +0100
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@
   cpqfcHBAdata->fcLQ = pci_alloc_consistent(cpqfcHBAdata->PciDev,
 				 sizeof( FC_LINK_QUE), &cpqfcHBAdata->fcLQ_dma_handle);
   /* printk("@ %p (%u elements)\n", cpqfcHBAdata->fcLQ, FC_LINKQ_DEPTH); */
-  memset( cpqfcHBAdata->fcLQ, 0, sizeof( FC_LINK_QUE));
 
   if( cpqfcHBAdata->fcLQ == NULL ) // fatal error!!
   {

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