Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Reject garbage in unsed ctx create/destroy fields

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:01:33AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 08:44:47AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Forgotten ever since, but luckily we're at least good at memset.
> > 
> > Testecase: igt/gem_ctx_create/invalid-pad
> > Testecase: igt/gem_ctx_bad_destroy/invalid-pad
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I wonder if we used mbz instead of pad, we would have a slightly more
> obvious reminder to zero the fields.
> 
> Looks like pad is only cleared fortuituosly in current userspace though.

Oops, VG_CLEAR isn't as good as I've thought. Time to write more patches I
guess. But I expect that most compile libdrm with valgrind support, so I
still think we could try this out for 3.21 and see what happens ...
-Daniel
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