The region set by the call to memset is immediately overwritten by the
subsequent call to memcpy.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression e1,e2,e3,e4;
@@
- memset(e1,e2,e3);
memcpy(e1,e4,e3);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
}
}
- if ((!fail) && (vpd_data[1] < VPD_STRING_LEN)) {
- memset(nic->product_name, 0, vpd_data[1]);
+ if ((!fail) && (vpd_data[1] < VPD_STRING_LEN))
memcpy(nic->product_name, &vpd_data[3], vpd_data[1]);
- }
kfree(vpd_data);
swstats->mem_freed += 256;
}