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[v2,10/22] watchdog: ziirave_wdt: Zero out only what's necessary

Message ID 20190812200906.31344-11-andrew.smirnov@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Series Ziirave_wdt driver fixes | expand

Commit Message

Andrey Smirnov Aug. 12, 2019, 8:08 p.m. UTC
Instead of zeroing out all of the packet and then overwriting a
significant portion of those zeros via memcpy(), zero out only a
portion of the packet that is known to not contain any data.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Rick Ramstetter <rick@anteaterllc.com>
Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/watchdog/ziirave_wdt.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Guenter Roeck Aug. 15, 2019, 6:17 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:08:54PM -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> Instead of zeroing out all of the packet and then overwriting a
> significant portion of those zeros via memcpy(), zero out only a
> portion of the packet that is known to not contain any data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
> Cc: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> Cc: Rick Ramstetter <rick@anteaterllc.com>
> Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/ziirave_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/ziirave_wdt.c
index e0f55cbdc603..69694f2836d7 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/ziirave_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/ziirave_wdt.c
@@ -260,8 +260,6 @@  static int __ziirave_firm_write_pkt(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 	}
 
-	memset(packet, 0, sizeof(packet));
-
 	/* Packet length */
 	packet[0] = len;
 	/* Packet address */
@@ -269,6 +267,7 @@  static int __ziirave_firm_write_pkt(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
 	packet[2] = (addr16 & 0xff00) >> 8;
 
 	memcpy(packet + 3, data, len);
+	memset(packet + 3 + len, 0, ZIIRAVE_FIRM_PKT_DATA_SIZE - len);
 
 	/* Packet checksum */
 	for (i = 0; i < len + 3; i++)