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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jhs@mojatatu.com
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	dsa@cumulusnetworks.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
	jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net,
	avagin@openvz.org, stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:09:24 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160928.080924.262829446101549341.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <696ed966-991c-30f7-9a1c-d91a94c9304c@mojatatu.com>

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:06:51 -0400

> I understood well your point;-> Maybe my response was not clear:
> _nobody should be fscking fondling pad fields_ setting them or
> otherwise.

Especially considering potential future uses of the field, existing
users absolutely must zero out the field.

Whether this is via a memset() of the entire structure or via
an explicit initialization to zero is their choice.

So setting 'pad' is in fact valid.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-28 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-28  9:03 Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-09-28 10:08 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-09-28 10:17   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-09-28 10:43     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-09-28 10:51       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-09-28 11:06         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-09-28 11:27           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-09-28 12:06             ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-09-28 12:09               ` David Miller [this message]
2016-09-28 12:21               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-09-28 12:07             ` David Miller
2016-09-28 12:09               ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-09-28 12:16                 ` David Miller
2016-09-28 12:27                   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-09-28 12:38                     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-09-28 12:45                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-09-28 12:50                       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-09-28 12:57                         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-09-28 12:18               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-09-28 12:57             ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-28 13:02               ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-28 13:09                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-09-28 13:03               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-09-28 13:29                 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-28 13:43                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-09-28 13:49                     ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-28 14:55                       ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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