Re: [PATCH 4.19 105/116] bpf: Explicitly memset the bpf_attr structure

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Apr 02 2020 - 15:20:57 EST


On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 08:53:21PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Should we fix gcc, instead?

Also, this is allowed in the C standard, and both clang and gcc
sometimes emit code that does not clear padding in structures. Changing
the compiler to not do this would be wonderful, but we still have to
live with this for the next 10 years as those older compilers age-out.

sorry,

greg k-h