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Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets

From David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets
Date 2016-09-28 14:20 +0200
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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:06:51 -0400

> I understood well your point;-> Maybe my response was not clear:
> _nobody should be fscking fondling pad fields_ setting them or
> otherwise.

Especially considering potential future uses of the field, existing
users absolutely must zero out the field.

Whether this is via a memset() of the entire structure or via
an explicit initialization to zero is their choice.

So setting 'pad' is in fact valid.

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[PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 11:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> - 2016-09-28 12:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 12:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> - 2016-09-28 12:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> - 2016-09-28 13:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> - 2016-09-28 14:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-09-28 14:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 14:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-09-28 14:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 14:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-09-28 14:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> - 2016-09-28 14:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> - 2016-09-28 14:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 14:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 15:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> - 2016-09-28 15:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> - 2016-09-28 14:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 15:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 15:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 15:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 15:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 15:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 17:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v5] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 15:10 +0200

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