Re: [PATCH] lib/idr.c: Zero memory properly in idr_remove_all

[Stefan Richter]

Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 14:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> What do we think of just removing the constructor and using
>> kmem_cache_zalloc()?
> 
> We still need to zero out the idr_layer before returning it to the idr's
> internal free list.

I think so too.  But a more robust solution would IMO be to initialize
an idr_layer /before/ use, not /after/ use.  Will send a patch later.
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