[PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: Fix memset warning found by sparse
Joe Perches
joe at perches.com
Fri Jun 19 00:24:03 UTC 2015
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.
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