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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net_sched: sch_mqprio: dont leak kernel memory
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:43:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296063823.6115.37.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296062517.2899.86.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 18:21 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> mqprio_dump() should make sure all fields of struct tc_mqprio_qopt are
> initialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> CC: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
> ---
>  net/sched/sch_mqprio.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
> index fbc6f53..effd4ee 100644
> --- a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
> +++ b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
> @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static int mqprio_dump(struct Qdisc *sch, struct sk_buff *skb)
>  	struct net_device *dev = qdisc_dev(sch);
>  	struct mqprio_sched *priv = qdisc_priv(sch);
>  	unsigned char *b = skb_tail_pointer(skb);
> -	struct tc_mqprio_qopt opt;
> +	struct tc_mqprio_qopt opt = { 0 };

I think the best style to use memset so that any
possible struct padding is guaranteed to be zeroed.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-26 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-26 17:21 [PATCH net-next-2.6] net_sched: sch_mqprio: dont leak kernel memory Eric Dumazet
2011-01-26 17:43 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2011-01-26 17:49   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-26 17:56     ` Joe Perches
2011-01-26 19:56       ` David Miller
2011-01-27 11:17       ` Pádraig Brady
2011-01-26 19:55   ` David Miller
2011-01-26 20:23     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-26 20:25       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-26 21:24       ` Joe Perches
2011-01-26 21:28         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-26 21:33           ` Joe Perches
2011-01-27  6:04     ` Joe Perches
2011-01-27  6:54       ` Changli Gao
2011-01-27  7:04       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-26 21:15 ` David Miller

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