The ibv_context structure will be getting additional ops,
to be added at the end of the structure (and not as part of
the existing ibv_context_ops structure).
Reason: ibv_context_ops is declared directly as a member of ibv_context,
and not as a pointer. Binaries compiled with previous libibverbs versions
will not be backwards compatible if we add new operations to ibv_context_ops,
since fields following the ops structure will move.
To enable adding new operations at the end of the existing ibv_context struct,
all driver libraries MUST zero their context structure at allocation time, so
that new ops will be NULL by default.
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/src/ipathverbs.c b/src/ipathverbs.c
index eb16fb0..55d8dcf 100644
--- a/src/ipathverbs.c
+++ b/src/ipathverbs.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
#include "ipathverbs.h"
#include "ipath-abi.h"
@@ -140,6 +141,7 @@ static struct ibv_context *ipath_alloc_context(struct
ibv_device *ibdev,
context = malloc(sizeof *context);
if (!context)
return NULL;
+ memset(context, 0, sizeof *context);
context->ibv_ctx.cmd_fd = cmd_fd;
if (ibv_cmd_get_context(&context->ibv_ctx, &cmd,
sizeof cmd, &resp, sizeof resp))
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