Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/1] xen-netfront: uninitialized fields in xenvif_rx_action

From: David Vrabel
Date: Tue Feb 02 2016 - 05:26:13 EST


On 02/02/16 06:20, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> While npo.copy and npo.meta are initialized in xenvif_rx_action, fields
> such as npo.meta_prod are directly used later in xenvif_gop_skb without
> being initialized first. Although the output of xenvif_rx_action is based
> on the difference between new npo->meta_prod and old npo->meta_prod, it is
> better to initialize them to 0 at the beginning.

Fields that are omitted from an initializer are initialized to zero. So
this patch is not needed.

David

> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> @@ -560,6 +560,10 @@ static void xenvif_rx_action(struct xenvif_queue *queue)
> bool need_to_notify = false;
>
> struct netrx_pending_operations npo = {
> + .copy_prod = 0,
> + .copy_cons = 0,
> + .meta_prod = 0,
> + .meta_cons = 0,
> .copy = queue->grant_copy_op,
> .meta = queue->meta,
> };
>