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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: trix@redhat.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
	jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com, jmorris@namei.org,
	serge@hallyn.com, denkenz@gmail.com, marcel@holtmann.org
Cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KEYS: remove redundant memset
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:02:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bdd6b8ec731d180023d593b679afc66def19b4f.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200722134610.31947-1-trix@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2020-07-22 at 06:46 -0700, trix@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
> 
> Reviewing use of memset in keyctrl_pkey.c
> 
> keyctl_pkey_params_get prologue code to set params up
> 
> 	memset(params, 0, sizeof(*params));
> 	params->encoding = "raw";
> 
> keyctl_pkey_query has the same prologue
> and calls keyctl_pkey_params_get.
> 
> So remove the prologue.
> 
> Fixes: 00d60fd3b932 ("KEYS: Provide keyctls to drive the new key type ops for asymmetric keys [ver #2]")

At best, this is a micro optimization.

How is this appropriate for a Fixes: line?

> diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl_pkey.c b/security/keys/keyctl_pkey.c
[]
> @@ -166,8 +166,6 @@ long keyctl_pkey_query(key_serial_t id,
>  	struct kernel_pkey_query res;
>  	long ret;
>  
> -	memset(&params, 0, sizeof(params));
> -
>  	ret = keyctl_pkey_params_get(id, _info, &params);
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		goto error;

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-22 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-22 13:46 [PATCH v2] KEYS: remove redundant memset trix
2020-07-22 20:02 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-07-22 20:10   ` Tom Rix
2020-07-22 20:20     ` Joe Perches
2020-07-23  2:39       ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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