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>
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index 9ff1b54..51b09a1 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -242,7 +242,8 @@
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;
}