From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@redhat.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@gmail.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>,
"open list:XDP (eXpress Data Path)" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:XDP (eXpress Data Path)" <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xdp_rxq_info_user: Replace malloc/memset w/calloc
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:05:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200612140520.1e3c0461@carbon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <427be84b1154978342ef861f1f4634c914d03a94.camel@perches.com>
On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 03:14:58 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 08:42 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:36:40 -0400
> > Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Replace malloc/memset with calloc
> > >
> > > Fixes: 0fca931a6f21 ("samples/bpf: program demonstrating access to xdp_rxq_info")
> > > Signed-off-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@gmail.com>
> >
> > Above is the correct use of Fixes + Signed-off-by.
> >
> > Now you need to update/improve the description, to also
> > mention/describe that this also solves the bug you found.
>
> This is not a fix, it's a conversion of one
> correct code to a shorter one.
Read the code again Joe. There is a bug in the code that gets removed,
as it runs memset on the memory before checking if it was NULL.
IHMO this proves why is it is necessary to mention in the commit
message, as you didn't notice the bug in your code review.
--
Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-12 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-11 15:02 [PATCH] xdp_rxq_info_user: Replace malloc/memset w/calloc Gaurav Singh
2020-06-11 18:01 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-06-12 0:26 ` Gaurav Singh
2020-06-12 0:36 ` Gaurav Singh
2020-06-12 6:42 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-06-12 10:14 ` Joe Perches
2020-06-12 12:05 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2020-06-12 15:19 ` Joe Perches
2020-06-12 12:06 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-06-12 18:53 ` [PATCH] xdp_rxq_info_user: Fix null pointer dereference. Replace malloc/memset with calloc Gaurav Singh
2020-06-12 20:20 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-06-12 22:58 ` John Fastabend
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