netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net_sched: sch

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Date:	Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:17:00 +0000
From:	Pádraig Brady <P@...igBrady.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net_sched: sch_mqprio: dont leak kernel
 memory

On 26/01/11 17:56, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 18:49 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Le mercredi 26 janvier 2011 à 09:43 -0800, Joe Perches a écrit :
>>> I think the best style to use memset so that any
>>> possible struct padding is guaranteed to be zeroed.
>> We use the { 0 } style in net/sched,
> 
> That's nice, but it's the wrong style.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/15/63
> 
>> and there is no padding in this
>> structure, I checked this point.
> 
> That may be true right now for this particular
> structure, but that style is not future-proof.

I think {0,} is a valid init style, because the handling
of the initialization is special and overrides the point
mentioned in the link above.

cheers,
Pádraig.
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