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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] set dock_station->flags to zero during dock_add
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:45:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100201174557.GB3240@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100201173518.GA28002@ldl.fc.hp.com>

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:35:18AM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Thanks for catching this. Seems better to just memset the stack
> variable before we kmemdup it in platform_deivce_register_data().
> 
> How about this instead?

[ memset instead of explicitly setting flags to zero ]

I didn't do the memset because lower down we init every other field, but
zeros are zeros really.

Looking at platform_device_register_data, you could even make ds
static...now that is sure to break in small and subtle ways later on ;)

-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-01 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-01 16:30 [PATCH] set dock_station->flags to zero during dock_add Chris Mason
2010-02-01 17:35 ` Alex Chiang
2010-02-01 17:45   ` Chris Mason [this message]
2010-02-01 17:57     ` Alex Chiang
2010-02-12 20:45   ` Chris Mason
2010-02-13  9:34   ` Len Brown

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