linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets

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Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:09:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jhs@...atatu.com
Cc:     gorcunov@...il.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
        dsa@...ulusnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
        jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
        avagin@...nvz.org, stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:06:51 -0400

> I understood well your point;-> Maybe my response was not clear:
> _nobody should be fscking fondling pad fields_ setting them or
> otherwise.

Especially considering potential future uses of the field, existing
users absolutely must zero out the field.

Whether this is via a memset() of the entire structure or via
an explicit initialization to zero is their choice.

So setting 'pad' is in fact valid.