netdev - Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Zero flows on allocation.

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Date:	Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:32:27 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Zero flows on allocation.

On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 19:06 -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:

> 
> Fixes: 07148121 ("openvswitch: Eliminate memset() from flow_extract.")
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
> ---
>  net/openvswitch/flow_table.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
> index d22d8e9..5248322 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_alloc(void)
>  	struct flow_stats *stats;
>  	int node;
>  
> -	flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);

Or kmem_cache_zalloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL) ?




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