Re: [PATCH v2] random: vDSO: Avoid call to memset() when zeroing reserved in __cvdso_getrandom_data()

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 01:19:27PM +0100, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 11:39:43AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > On Sep 25 2026, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > 
> > > +#if __has_builtin(__builtin_memset_inline)
> > > +#define memset_inline(dst, value, size) __builtin_memset_inline(dst, value, size)
> > > +#elif IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CC_HAS_OPT_INLINE_MEMSET)
> > > +#define memset_inline(dst, value, size) __builtin_memset(dst, value, size)
> > > +#else
> > > +static inline void *memset_inline(void *dst, int value, size_t size)
> > > +{
> > > +	char *d = dst;
> > > +
> > > +	while (size--)
> > > +		*d++ = value;
> > > +
> > > +	return d;
> > > +}
> > > +#endif
> > > +
> > 
> > memset actually returns the original pointer, not the incremented one.
> > Nothing uses the return value of memset_inline here, but it is
> > confusing.
> 
> Whoops, good catch, I guess my fingers gave up on those last two
> characters :) I will fix this for v3 once there has been some time for
> further review.

Do we even need to return a value at all? Might as well just make the
function two lines:

+       for (char *d = dst; size--;)
+               *d++ = value;

(Technically that could even be one, but maybe that sort of golf loses
clarity. Your choice.)