From d4e6a97812162f4b7c51dbb773869f3ca7fb1a42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Robenolt <matt@ydekproductions.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 09:15:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] go/mysql: use clear builtin for zerofill (#16348)

Signed-off-by: Matt Robenolt <matt@ydekproductions.com>
---
 go/mysql/encoding.go | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/go/mysql/encoding.go b/go/mysql/encoding.go
index b9d015e8948..20e09f32fe8 100644
--- a/go/mysql/encoding.go
+++ b/go/mysql/encoding.go
@@ -132,15 +132,8 @@ func writeLenEncString(data []byte, pos int, value string) int {
 }
 
 func writeZeroes(data []byte, pos int, len int) int {
-	// XXX: This implementation is optimized to leverage
-	// the go compiler's memclr pattern, see: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/5373
 	end := pos + len
-	data = data[pos:end]
-
-	for i := range data {
-		data[i] = 0
-	}
-
+	clear(data[pos:end])
 	return end
 }