On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 02:33:13PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> > diff --git a/datapath/datapath.c b/datapath/datapath.c
> > index 940a581..dcff05f 100644
> > --- a/datapath/datapath.c
> > +++ b/datapath/datapath.c
> > @@ -709,6 +709,15 @@ static int odp_packet_cmd_execute(struct sk_buff *skb, 
> > struct genl_info *info)
> >        if (err)
> >                goto exit;
> >
> > +       /* Initialize OVS_CB (it came from Netlink so might not be zeroed). 
> > */
> > +       OVS_CB(packet)->vport = NULL;
> > +       OVS_CB(packet)->flow = NULL;
> > +       /* execute_actions() will reset tun_id to 0 anyhow. */
> > +#ifdef NEED_CSUM_NORMALIZE
> > +       OVS_CB(packet)->ip_summed = OVS_CSUM_NONE;
> > +#endif
> > +       vlan_copy_skb_tci(packet);
> 
> Is there a reason to not just do:
> memset(packet->cb, 0, sizeof(struct ovs_skb_cb));
> 
> It's essentially what we were getting before with the ioctls since
> alloc_skb() zeros out these fields and it's a bit nicer to not have to
> enumerate all of the members.

I have no objection to doing it that way.  Doing it this way forced me
to consider what each member should actually be initialized to, but in
fact all-zeros is fine.

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