netdev - Re: [PATCH net] l2tp: fix configuration passed to setup_udp_tunnel

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Date:	Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:20:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	g.nault@...halink.fr
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tom@...bertland.com, jchapman@...alix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] l2tp: fix configuration passed to
 setup_udp_tunnel_sock()

From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 13:48:02 +0200

> @@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ int l2tp_tunnel_create(struct net *net, int fd, int version, u32 tunnel_id, u32
>  	/* Mark socket as an encapsulation socket. See net/ipv4/udp.c */
>  	tunnel->encap = encap;
>  	if (encap == L2TP_ENCAPTYPE_UDP) {
> -		struct udp_tunnel_sock_cfg udp_cfg;
> +		struct udp_tunnel_sock_cfg udp_cfg = { NULL };

This assumes that the first member of udp_tunnel_sock_cfg is, and will always
be, a pointer.

You could use a named initializer to make this better, but the cleanest way to
deal with this is to use an empty initializer "{ }", or just plain memset()
the thing to zero.

Thanks.