zero_buffer is never written, thus clearing it is pointless. journal_buffer is completely initialized by ext4fs_devread (or in case of failure, not used).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Brüns stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de --- fs/ext4/ext4_common.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

v3: Patch added to series

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c index 0018937..1ebdbe6 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c @@ -921,7 +921,6 @@ restart:

if (le16_to_cpu(bgd[bg_idx].bg_flags) & EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT) { uint16_t new_flags; - memset(zero_buffer, '\0', fs->blksz); put_ext4((uint64_t)le32_to_cpu(bgd[bg_idx].block_id) * fs->blksz, zero_buffer, fs->blksz); memcpy(fs->blk_bmaps[bg_idx], zero_buffer, fs->blksz); @@ -938,7 +937,6 @@ restart:

/* journal backup */ if (prev_bg_bitmap_index != bg_idx) { - memset(journal_buffer, '\0', fs->blksz); status = ext4fs_devread( (lbaint_t)le32_to_cpu(bgd[bg_idx].block_id) * fs->sect_perblk, @@ -1032,7 +1030,6 @@ restart: ibmap_idx = fs->curr_inode_no / inodes_per_grp; if (le16_to_cpu(bgd[ibmap_idx].bg_flags) & EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT) { int new_flags; - memset(zero_buffer, '\0', fs->blksz); put_ext4((uint64_t)le32_to_cpu(bgd[ibmap_idx].inode_id) * fs->blksz, zero_buffer, fs->blksz); new_flags = le16_to_cpu(bgd[ibmap_idx].bg_flags) & ~EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT;