netdev - Re: [PATCH net v1 1/1] net: selftests: initialize TCP header and skb payload with zero

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Message-ID: <20250422165903.5aa81b10@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:59:03 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman
 <horms@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Maxime Chevallier
 <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v1 1/1] net: selftests: initialize TCP header and
 skb payload with zero

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:01:25 +0200 Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Zero-initialize TCP header via memset() to avoid garbage values that
> may affect checksum or behavior during test transmission.
> 
> Also zero-fill allocated payload and padding regions using memset()
> after skb_put(), ensuring deterministic content for all outgoing
> test packets.

This has been applied, thanks!

patchwork-but is down, it seems, and it's out of our control :(