netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] cnic: Explicitly initialize all reference counts to 0.

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Message-Id: <20190805.132219.833968941437361765.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:22:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     michael.chan@...adcom.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, hslester96@...il.com, rmody@...vell.com,
        GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] cnic: Explicitly initialize all reference
 counts to 0.

From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Date: Fri,  2 Aug 2019 02:17:51 -0400

> The driver is relying on zero'ed allocated memory and does not
> explicitly call atomic_set() to initialize the ref counts to 0.  Add
> these atomic_set() calls so that it will be more straight forward
> to convert atomic ref counts to refcount_t.
> 
> Reported-by: Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@...il.com>
> Cc: Rasesh Mody <rmody@...vell.com>
> Cc: <GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>

Applied.