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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2008-11-20 04:08:29 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-11-20 04:08:29 -0800
commit0c19b0adb8dd33dbd10ff48e41971231c486855c (patch)
tree8cbc7b353824647f3662aeb23c3849324bffac28 /include
parentc0103606b7e3db191dcbaf988f28fa26aa711230 (diff)
downloadlinux-0c19b0adb8dd33dbd10ff48e41971231c486855c.tar.bz2
netlink: avoid memset of 0 bytes sparse warning
A netlink attribute padding of zero triggers this sparse warning: include/linux/netlink.h:245:8: warning: memset with byte count of 0 Avoid the memset when the size parameter is constant and requires no padding. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netlink.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index 9ff1b54908f3..51b09a1f46c3 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ __nlmsg_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, u32 seq, int type, int len, int flags)
nlh->nlmsg_flags = flags;
nlh->nlmsg_pid = pid;
nlh->nlmsg_seq = seq;
- memset(NLMSG_DATA(nlh) + len, 0, NLMSG_ALIGN(size) - size);
+ if (!__builtin_constant_p(size) || NLMSG_ALIGN(size) - size != 0)
+ memset(NLMSG_DATA(nlh) + len, 0, NLMSG_ALIGN(size) - size);
return nlh;
}