netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] wireguard: Omit unnecessary memset of netdev private data

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Message-ID: <Zu2UUGtENfHmtnOc@zx2c4.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:27:12 +0200
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
Cc: wireguard@...ts.zx2c4.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] wireguard: Omit unnecessary memset of netdev
 private data

On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 10:57:46AM +0200, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> The memory for netdev_priv is allocated using kvzalloc in
> alloc_netdev_mqs before rtnl_link_ops->setup is called so there is no
> need to zero it again in wg_setup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>

Thanks. Seems reasonable to me. I'll queue it up in the wireguard tree.

Jason