netdev - Re: [PATCH] net sched: text ematch: zero out ts

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Message-ID: <20141009215441.GA1830@mew.dhcp4.washington.edu>
Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2014 14:54:41 -0700
From:	Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>
To:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Cc:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net sched: text ematch: zero out ts_state before using it

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:48:54PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com> wrote:
> > textsearch_find zeroes out the offset, but the control buffer (which may or may
> > not matter in this case) needs to be zeroed out as well.
> 
> Why? skb_prepare_seq_read() initializes the cb.
> 
> Also, the comment says:
> 
>  * @state: uninitialized textsearch state variable

Mm, thanks, I missed that. It looks like every other caller of skb_find_text is
doing an unnecessary memset in that case. Disregard this, I guess.
-- 
Omar
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