[PATCH v5 1/9] scatterlist: add sg_zeroout_area() helper

Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn at suse.de
Wed Jun 7 00:00:50 PDT 2017


On 06/06/2017 08:26 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
>> +    while ((offset < buflen) && sg_miter_next(&miter)) {
>> +        unsigned int len;
>> +
>> +        len = min(miter.length, buflen - offset);
>> +        memset(miter.addr, '\0', len);
> 
> Why '\0' and not 0?

Shouldn't be a difference, should it? ascii(7) says
'000   0     00    NUL '\0' (null character)'


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