netdev - Re: [iproute PATCH v2 1/7] ipaddress: Make buffer for filter.flushb static

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Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:57:03 +0200
From:   Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v2 1/7] ipaddress: Make buffer for filter.flushb
 static

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 07:09:25PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> The buffer is accessed outside of the function defining it, so make it
> static.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>

Self-NACK: Access to flushb should be sane since all accessors are
called from ipaddr_flush(). Looking at the covscan output again, it
merely complained about filter.flusb still pointing to the local buffer
when ipaddr_flush() returns.

Cheers, Phil