From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: use designated initializers for report structs
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 22:11:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <af5DbZKdf5u0H_-1@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260508184013.GB4145640@google.com>
On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 06:40:13PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 12:57:17PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> > Use designated initializers for the report structs instead of clearing
> > the struct with memset() and then copying fixed strings with strscpy()
> > at runtime.
> >
> > This keeps the structs zero-initialized, lets the compiler diagnose
> > oversized string literals, and makes the code easier to read.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
>
> Did you verify that none of these structs contain any implicit padding?
Yes, I checked the structs manually and with pahole, which also reported
no holes. The structs only use char[64] followed by unsigned ints, so
implicit padding shouldn't be an issue.
Thanks,
Thorsten
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2026-05-08 10:57 [PATCH] crypto: use designated initializers for report structs Thorsten Blum
2026-05-08 18:40 ` Eric Biggers
2026-05-08 20:11 ` Thorsten Blum [this message]
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