linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it

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Message-ID: <2025070144-brussels-revisit-9aa3@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 14:56:14 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	HarshaVardhana S A <harshavardhana.sa@...adcom.com>,
	Bryan Tan <bryan-bt.tan@...adcom.com>,
	Vishnu Dasa <vishnu.dasa@...adcom.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, virtualization@...ts.linux.dev,
	stable <stable@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly
 when initializing it

On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 02:42:10PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 02:22:54PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: HarshaVardhana S A <harshavardhana.sa@...adcom.com>
> > 
> > In vmci_transport_packet_init memset the vmci_transport_packet before
> > populating the fields to avoid any uninitialised data being left in the
> > structure.
> 
> Usually I would suggest inserting a Fixes tag, but if you didn't put it,
> there's probably a reason :-)
> 
> If we are going to add it, I think it should be:
> 
> Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets")

Yeah, I didn't think it was needed as this is obviously a "ever since
this file has been there" type of thing, so it will be backported
everywhere once it hits Linus's tree.

thanks,

greg k-h