From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] drivers/net: drop redundant memset Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100315.154714.23695928.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ram.vepa@neterion.com, santosh.rastapur@neterion.com, sivakumar.subramani@neterion.com, sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com, anil.murthy@neterion.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org To: julia@diku.dk Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:14:11 +0100 (CET) > From: Julia Lawall > > The region set by the call to memset is immediately overwritten by the > subsequent call to memcpy. > > The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // > @@ > expression e1,e2,e3,e4; > @@ > > - memset(e1,e2,e3); > memcpy(e1,e4,e3); > // > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Applied, thanks!