[PATCH] ext4:memset is needless in ext4_ext_remove_space()

[PATCH] ext4:memset is needless in ext4_ext_remove_space()

["潘卫平(Peter Pan)"]

memset is needless because path is allocated by kzalloc.

Signed-off-by: Peter Pan(潘卫平) <wppan@redflag-linux.com>
---
  fs/ext4/extents.c |    1 -
  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 0554c48..37cdb6e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -2375,7 +2375,6 @@ again:
  			/* go to the next level */
  			ext_debug("move to level %d (block %llu)\n",
  				  i + 1, ext4_idx_pblock(path[i].p_idx));
-			memset(path + i + 1, 0, sizeof(*path));
  			bh = sb_bread(sb, ext4_idx_pblock(path[i].p_idx));
  			if (!bh) {
  				/* should we reset i_size? */
-- 
1.6.6

Re: [PATCH] ext4:memset is needless in ext4_ext_remove_space()

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:19:47AM +0800, "潘卫平(Peter Pan)" wrote:
>
> memset is needless because path is allocated by kzalloc.
>

This is inside a loop and sometimes we do i++ and sometimes i--.  Are
you absolutely positive that path + i isn't initialized?

I haven't followed this code through all the way but my instinct is
that the memset is there for a reason.

regards,
dan carpenter

Re: [PATCH] ext4:memset is needless in ext4_ext_remove_space()

["Peter Pan(潘卫平)"]

On 2010年11月08日 12:37, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This is inside a loop and sometimes we do i++ and sometimes i--. Are
> you absolutely positive that path + i isn't initialized?
>
> I haven't followed this code through all the way but my instinct is
> that the memset is there for a reason.
>    
I know that I misunderstood it.

Thank you!

Regards

Peter Pan