netdev - Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets

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Message-ID: <20160928122156.GY1876@uranus.lan>
Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:21:57 +0300
From:   Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        kaber@...sh.net, avagin@...nvz.org, stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 08:06:51AM -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> 
> I understood well your point;-> Maybe my response was not clear:
> _nobody should be fscking fondling pad fields_ setting them or
> otherwise.
> Maybe let these programs fail. I asked if you knew any such app which
> did anything with a pad field.

Nope, I don't know such programs. criu and iproute2 both zeroify
this strcuture explicitly by whole. But who knows where else this
structure used in userspace world.