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SubjectRe: [PATCH] usb: core: fix information leak to userland


--- On Sat, 11/6/10, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Are you sure that adding an initializer
> like this will zero out the
> padding bytes?  It might be safer just to call
> memset.

ISTR the C standard says things get initted to
zero in this case too ... and that compilers will
as a rule use memset to do it. One could look
at the generated code to make sure of that.

There's certainly a fair amount of code I've seen
that uses runtime initializers like that, to zero
memory. I can't believe i's _all_ broken! ;)

- Dave


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