netdev - Re: net: Zeroing the structure ethtool_wolinfo in ethtool_get

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Message-ID: <1471966808.3746.109.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2016 08:40:08 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@...il.com>
Cc:     Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>,
        Avijit Kanti Das <avijitnsec@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: net: Zeroing the structure ethtool_wolinfo in ethtool_get_wol()

On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 19:27 +0400, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
> Better be safe than sorry.

Better still would be to create a tool via something like
coccinelle that could be run on the entire kernel than
submit a single patch for a construct that likely occurs
dozens of times in the kernel source tree.

(and please do not send html formatted emails to lkml)