bio: get rid of bio_vec clearing

We don't need to clear the memory used for adding bio_vec entries,
since nobody should be looking at members unitialized. Any valid
use should be below bio->bi_vcnt, and that members up until that count
must be valid since they were added through bio_add_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 75e6be18ecd3..711cee103602 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ struct bio_vec *bvec_alloc_bs(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nr, unsigned long *idx,
          * kzalloc() for the exact number of vecs right away.
          */
         if (!bs)
-                bvl = kzalloc(nr * sizeof(struct bio_vec), gfp_mask);
+                bvl = kmalloc(nr * sizeof(struct bio_vec), gfp_mask);
 
         /*
          * see comment near bvec_array define!
@@ -237,9 +237,6 @@ fallback:
                 }
         }
 
-        if (bvl)
-                memset(bvl, 0, bvec_nr_vecs(*idx) * sizeof(struct bio_vec));
-
         return bvl;
 }
 
@@ -325,7 +322,6 @@ struct bio *bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nr_iovecs, struct bio_set *bs)
                                 idx = 0;
                                 bvl = bio->bi_inline_vecs;
                                 nr_iovecs = BIO_INLINE_VECS;
-                                memset(bvl, 0, BIO_INLINE_VECS * sizeof(*bvl));
                         } else {
                                 bvl = bvec_alloc_bs(gfp_mask, nr_iovecs, &idx,
                                                         bs);