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

On 08/02/2017 20:46, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

Em Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 03:17:43PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:

quoted

On 2/7/17 1:44 PM, Mickaël Salaün wrote:

quoted

-	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