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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] scsi: don't memset the entire scsi_cmnd in scsi_init_command
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 13:39:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220223123940.GA4205@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5c2f7e0-6b14-222f-ba16-696b29517296@huawei.com>

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 12:21:10PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> I am just wondering did you consider using struct_group() for safety?
>
> I don't think the scsi_cmnd members have special ordering apart from 
> co-locating related members.
>
> Here's how it could look (on top of yours):

Besides being ugly as hell I don't see the benefit.  Quite contrary,
a lot of these fields are properly initialized later and we can drop
the zeroing as well, but I'd rather do that separately and with a proper
audit.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-23 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-22 14:04 remove struct scsi_request Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 1/8] bsg: don't include scsi_request.h in bsg-lib.h Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-22 18:33   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 2/8] target/pscsi: remove struct pscsi_plugin_task Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 3/8] scsi: don't memset the entire scsi_cmnd in scsi_init_command Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 12:21   ` John Garry
2022-02-23 12:39     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-02-23 12:56       ` John Garry
2022-02-23 12:58         ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 20:16           ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-24  6:52             ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 23:03   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-24  8:28   ` John Garry
2022-02-24 16:27     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-24 16:38       ` John Garry
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 4/8] scsi: remove the cmd field from struct scsi_request Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23  3:31   ` Martin K. Petersen
2022-02-23 23:36   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 5/8] scsi: remove the sense and sense_len fields " Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 23:39   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-24  6:53     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 6/8] scsi: move the resid_len field from struct scsi_request to struct scsi_cmnd Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 23:41   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 7/8] scsi: move the result " Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 23:43   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 8/8] scsi: remove struct scsi_request Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 23:48   ` Bart Van Assche

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