netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] vxlan: fix hlist corruption

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Date:   Mon, 3 Jul 2017 09:25:45 -0400
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
        pravin shelar <pshelar@....org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] vxlan: fix hlist corruption

On 07/03/2017 04:23 AM, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 16:06:10 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> I didn't see any init code for hlist4 and hlist6. Is vxlan_dev going to
>> be *zalloc'ed so that they are guaranteed to be NULL? If not, you may
>> need to add  init code as not both hlists will be hashed and so one of
>> them may contain invalid data.
> Yes, it's zalloced via alloc_netdev. No need to init the fields
> explicitly.
>
>  Jiri

Thanks for the clarification.

-Longman