Re: [RFC PATCH 4/8] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_clear_buf()

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:45:57 +0200
Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> 
> This is the version which clears the supplied buffer too. Useful when
> we're done with the buffer and want to clean it up and prepare it for
> reuse.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve

> ---
>  include/linux/seq_buf.h | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/seq_buf.h b/include/linux/seq_buf.h
> index fb7eb9ccb1cd..8705a482e76c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/seq_buf.h
> +++ b/include/linux/seq_buf.h
> @@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ static inline void seq_buf_clear(struct seq_buf *s)
>  	s->readpos = 0;
>  }
>  
> +/* Like seq_buf_clear() but zero out the buffer too. */
> +static inline void seq_buf_clear_buf(struct seq_buf *s)
> +{
> +	seq_buf_clear(s);
> +	memset(s->buffer, 0, s->size);
> +}
> +
>  static inline void
>  seq_buf_init(struct seq_buf *s, unsigned char *buf, unsigned int size)
>  {