Am 23.11.2010 21:18, schrieb Andrew Morton: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:02:44 -0700 > Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 2010-11-23, at 07:45, walter harms wrote: >>> Maybe we can convince the gcc people to make 0 padding default. That will not solve the problems for other compilers but when they claim "works like gcc" we can press then to support this also. I can imagine that this will close some other subtle leaks also. >> >> It makes the most sense to tackle this at the GCC level, since the added overhead of doing memset(0) on the whole struct may be non-trivial for commonly-used and/or large structures. > > (My, what long lines you have!) > > We can't reasonably address this with gcc changes. If gcc starts doing > what we want in the next release, how long will it be until that > release is the *oldest* version of gcc which the kernel may be compiled > with? Five years? > > agreed, but it does not mean not to talk to the gcc people that there is an interesse to change. re, wh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
