Re: [PATCH net-next v3 04/11] bpf: Use bpf_load_program() from the library

[MickaÃl SalaÃn]

On 08/02/2017 20:46, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 03:17:43PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:
>> On 2/7/17 1:44 PM, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
>>> -	union bpf_attr attr;
>>> +	union bpf_attr attr = {};
>>>
>>> -	bzero(&attr, sizeof(attr));
>>
>> I think somebody mentioned that there are compilers out there
>> that don't do it correctly, hence it was done with explicit bzero.
>> Arnaldo, Wang, do you remember the details?
> 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg411144.html
> 
> But this was when some named initializers are used in a union with
> unnamed members like 'union bpf_attr', unsure if this would break with
> the above case where no named initializers are being used.
> 
> Having that said, the above is gratuitous, the code that is being
> replaced is not related to the patch at hand, and conceptually the end
> result should be the same.
> 
> So, please, just leave it as is, i.e. using bzero() and make your patch
> a bit smaller, remember, small is good, smaller is even better ;-)
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 

Right, I'll do it.

Thanks

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