Re: [syzbot] upstream boot error: WARNING in netlink_ack

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Oct 04 2022 - 20:23:45 EST


On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 17:04:00 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > why does a fixed size mean no memset?
>
> Copy and paste, it seems to originate from:
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> 0c19b0adb8dd ("netlink: avoid memset of 0 bytes sparse warning")
>
> Any idea why sparse would not like empty memsets?

Google answers is. Let me test if sparse still wants the workaround.