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Date:	Sun, 20 Sep 2015 23:24:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse@...ira.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Zero flows on allocation.

From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:06:14 -0700

> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_alloc(void)
>  	struct flow_stats *stats;
>  	int node;
>  
> -	flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
>  	if (!flow)

Like Eric, I prefer that you use kmem_cache_zalloc() to fix
this.

Thanks.
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