netdev - Re: [PATCH net] l2tp: fix configuration passed to setup_udp_tunnel

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Message-ID: <20160608103538.GF1592@alphalink.fr>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2016 12:35:38 +0200
From:	Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tom@...bertland.com, jchapman@...alix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] l2tp: fix configuration passed to
 setup_udp_tunnel_sock()

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 04:20:17PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 13:48:02 +0200
> 
> > @@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ int l2tp_tunnel_create(struct net *net, int fd, int version, u32 tunnel_id, u32
> >  	/* Mark socket as an encapsulation socket. See net/ipv4/udp.c */
> >  	tunnel->encap = encap;
> >  	if (encap == L2TP_ENCAPTYPE_UDP) {
> > -		struct udp_tunnel_sock_cfg udp_cfg;
> > +		struct udp_tunnel_sock_cfg udp_cfg = { NULL };
> 
> This assumes that the first member of udp_tunnel_sock_cfg is, and will always
> be, a pointer.
> 
> You could use a named initializer to make this better, but the cleanest way to
> deal with this is to use an empty initializer "{ }", or just plain memset()
> the thing to zero.
> 
Indeed. I'll repost using "{ }" then.