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SubjectRe: [PATCH 10/11] tcp: Always set options to 0 before calling tcp_established_options
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:29:11 -0700

> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> tcp_established_options assumes opts->options is 0 before calling,
> as it read modify writes it.
>
> For the tcp_current_mss() case the opts structure is not zeroed,
> so this can be done with uninitialized values.
>
> This is ok, because ->options is not read in this path.
> But it's still better to avoid the operation on the uninitialized
> field. This shuts up a static code analyzer, and presumably
> may help the optimizer.
>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

Applied.


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