Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/ibmveth.c: memset fix

[Mariusz Kozlowski]

> >> 	Looks like memset() is zeroing wrong nr of bytes.
> > 
> > Good catch, however, I think we can just remove this memset altogether
> > since the memory gets allocated via kzalloc.
> 
> Correct, that memset() is superfluous.

Ok. Then this should do it.

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>

 drivers/net/ibmveth.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2007-08-01 08:43:46.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2007-08-06 23:32:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ static int __devinit ibmveth_probe(struc
 {
 	int rc, i;
 	struct net_device *netdev;
-	struct ibmveth_adapter *adapter = NULL;
+	struct ibmveth_adapter *adapter;

 	unsigned char *mac_addr_p;
 	unsigned int *mcastFilterSize_p;
@@ -997,7 +997,6 @@ static int __devinit ibmveth_probe(struc
 	SET_MODULE_OWNER(netdev);

 	adapter = netdev->priv;
-	memset(adapter, 0, sizeof(adapter));
 	dev->dev.driver_data = netdev;

 	adapter->vdev = dev;
-
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