linux-kernel - Fwd: kobject_init and the zeroed-out-memory requirement

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Date:	Sun, 5 Oct 2014 16:05:54 -0400
From:	Jason Noakes <jjnoakes@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Fwd: kobject_init and the zeroed-out-memory requirement

I noticed that kobject_init() requres the kobject passed in to be
zeroed out fully first.

Many other *_init kernel routines (cdev_init, kref_init, mutex_init,
spin_lock_init, etc) do not have the same requirement - they work on
fully uninitialized memory.

Documentation/kobject.txt does not mention the requirement that the
memory be zero-initialized before it is passed to kobject_init.

I would like to submit a patch - which solution is preferred?

  (a) Update Documentation/kobject.txt and explicitly add the requirement
  (b) Modify kobject_init to zero out the memory itself like other
*_init routines
        (It already initializes most of its members - just not all of them)
  (c) Something else?

Your preference?

(Please CC: me on replies).

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~~ Jason J. Noakes
~~ jjnoakes@...il.com
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