Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Updates for 5.2

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 4:29 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> One option is to just rewrite it something like
>
>         const unsigned int offset = offsetof(struct trace_iterator, seq);
>         memset(offset+(void *)&iter, 0, sizeof(iter) - offset);

Side note: make it a well-named helper function, since
"ftrace_dump_buf()" does this too in kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c, and
gets the exact same warning.

              Linus