linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/18] vfs: add miscattr ops

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Date:   Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:45:46 +0100
From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/18] vfs: add miscattr ops

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 1:28 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 09:45:02AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> > Isn't structure initialization supposed to zero everything not
> > explicitly initialized?
>
> All fields, but not the padding...

Ah...  while the structure is unlikely to change, I'll switch to
memset to be safe.

>
> > The one in io_uring() seems wrong also, as a beast needing
> > file_dentry() should never get out of overlayfs and into io_uring:
>
> That one would be wrong in overlayfs as well - we'd better had the
> same names in all layers...

Right.

Thanks,
Miklos