Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: Fix uninitialized variable

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jun 07 2021 - 05:23:27 EST


On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 11:33:17AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Greg asked about struct holes and the answer is "= {}" will zero out
> struct holes but it's not important in this case. The "= {}" is a GCC
> extension for zeroing structs and it's not part of the C standard.
> The struct has a kernel pointer in it so we had better not be shairing
> it to user space.

I thought we proved that "= {}" will _NOT_ zero out holes in structures.
Or did we really prove that? I can't remember now, do you?

thanks,

greg k-h