From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn, jim.cromie@gmail.com,
marcos.souza.org@gmail.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: avoid a useless call to memset().
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:07:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50BEC867.7090209@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354670522-27144-1-git-send-email-tipecaml@gmail.com>
On 12/04/2012 07:22 PM, Cyril Roelandt wrote:
> In r8711_wx_get_wap(), make sure we do not call memcpy() on a memory area that
> has just been zeroed by a call to memset().
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Thanks,
Larry
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> index 3a64790..2c73319 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> @@ -1131,10 +1131,11 @@ static int r8711_wx_get_wap(struct net_device *dev,
> struct ndis_wlan_bssid_ex *pcur_bss = &pmlmepriv->cur_network.network;
>
> wrqu->ap_addr.sa_family = ARPHRD_ETHER;
> - memset(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);
> if (check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, _FW_LINKED |
> WIFI_ADHOC_MASTER_STATE|WIFI_AP_STATE)) {
> memcpy(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, pcur_bss->MacAddress, ETH_ALEN);
> + } else {
> + memset(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);
> }
> return 0;
> }
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-05 4:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-05 1:22 Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-05 4:07 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2012-12-05 7:11 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-12-09 0:31 ` Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-10 8:55 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-12-05 8:12 ` walter harms
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