Hi Himanshu,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Himanshu Jha [mailto:himanshujha199...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 2017年9月11日 20:46
> To: amitkar...@gmail.com
> Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam <nisha...@marvell.com>; Ganapathi Bhat
> <gb...@marvell.com>; Xinming Hu <h...@marvell.com>;
> kv...@codeaurora.org; linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org;
> netdev@vger.kernel.org; Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [EXT] [PATCH] mwifiex: remove unnecessary call to memset
> 
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> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> call to memset to assign 0 value immediately after allocating memory with
> kzalloc is unnecesaary as kzalloc allocates the memory filled with 0 value.
> 

Looks find to me, Thanks.

Regards,
Simon

> Semantic patch used to resolve this issue:
> 
> @@
> expression e,e2; constant c;
> statement S;
> @@
> 
>   e = kzalloc(e2, c);
>   if(e == NULL) S
> - memset(e, 0, e2);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
> index c9d41ed..8838b88 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
> @@ -1936,8 +1936,6 @@ mwifiex_active_scan_req_for_passive_chan(struct
> mwifiex_private *priv)
>       if (!user_scan_cfg)
>               return -ENOMEM;
> 
> -     memset(user_scan_cfg, 0, sizeof(*user_scan_cfg));
> -
>       for (id = 0; id < MWIFIEX_USER_SCAN_CHAN_MAX; id++) {
>               if (!priv->hidden_chan[id].chan_number)
>                       break;
> --
> 2.7.4

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