netdev - Re: [PATCH] scm: fix scm_fp_list->list initialization made in wrong place

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Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:52:18 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...nvz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scm: fix scm_fp_list->list initialization made in
 wrong place

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:32:58 +0300

> This is the next page of the scm recursion story (the commit 
> f8d570a4 net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy()).
> 
> In function scm_fp_dup(), the INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fpl->list) of newly
> created fpl is done *before* the subsequent memcpy from the old 
> structure and thus the freshly initialized list is overwritten.
> 
> But that's OK, since this initialization is not required at all,
> since the fpl->list is list_add-ed at the destruction time in any
> case (and is unused in other code), so I propose to drop both
> initializations, rather than moving it after the memcpy.
> 
> Please, correct me if I miss something significant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Yep, this is totally correct.

Linus even noticed this in my original patch but kept them there
because they seemed harmless to him.

Patch applied to net-2.6, thanks!
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