Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] staging: rtl8192u: User memset to initialize memory, instead of loop.
From: John Whitmore
Date: Sun Jun 24 2018 - 10:40:13 EST
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 07:26:41AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-06-24 at 10:57 +0100, John Whitmore wrote:
> > Replaced memory initialising loop with memset, as suggested by Andy Shevchenko
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_HTProc.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_HTProc.c
> []
> > @@ -742,8 +742,6 @@ void HTConstructRT2RTAggElement(struct ieee80211_device *ieee, u8 *posRT2RTAgg,
> > */
> > static u8 HT_PickMCSRate(struct ieee80211_device *ieee, u8 *pOperateMCS)
> > {
> > - u8 i;
> > -
> > if (!pOperateMCS) {
> > IEEE80211_DEBUG(IEEE80211_DL_ERR, "pOperateMCS can't be null in HT_PickMCSRate()\n");
> > return false;
> > @@ -756,8 +754,7 @@ static u8 HT_PickMCSRate(struct ieee80211_device *ieee, u8 *pOperateMCS)
> > //legacy rate routine handled at selectedrate
> >
> > //no MCS rate
> > - for (i = 0; i <= 15; i++)
> > - pOperateMCS[i] = 0;
> > + memset(pOperateMCS, 0, 15);
>
> Not the same code.
>
> Loop is <= 15, so memset should use 16
>
I wonder could I simply edit that single patch file to change "15" to "16" and
re-issue the set as "v3"? There's no checksums on the patch file just but
there are git hashes which will change with content I guess :(
I'll re-do that patch set. Stupid mistake.