netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ndisc.c: reduce size of __ndisc_fill_addr

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Date:   Mon, 29 May 2017 21:24:21 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, adobriyan@...il.com
Cc:     Linyu.Yuan@...atel-sbell.com.cn, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ndisc.c: reduce size of
 __ndisc_fill_addr_option()

On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 23:31 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 18:15:14 +0300
> 
> >> --- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
> >> +++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
> >> @@ -148,17 +148,18 @@ void __ndisc_fill_addr_option(struct sk_buff *skb, int type, void *data,
> > 
> >>      space -= data_len;
> >> -    if (space > 0)
> >> -            memset(opt, 0, space);
> >> +
> >> +    memset(opt, 0, space);
> > 
> > This can't be right.
> > 
> > And what size are you reducing?
> 
> It is right, space equals the same thing it would have equaled
> before his changes, and a memset() of zero length will do the
> right thing.
> 
> Finally, if space can be negative here, we have real problems.

__ndisc_fill_addr_option is exported so yeah.