Hi, On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:05:52PM +0100, Jeremy Sowden wrote: > Most members in the context doesn't change, so there is no need to > memset it and reassign most of its members on every iteration. Moved > that code out of the loop. > > Fixes: 49900d448ac9 ("libnftables: Move library stuff out of main.c") This commit merely moved the code from src/main.c into the current location. I would rather point at a72315d2bad47 ("src: add rule batching support"), which introduced the loop (and already contains some of the pointless assignments). Note that commit is from 2013. :) > Reported-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > src/libnftables.c | 11 ++++------- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/src/libnftables.c b/src/libnftables.c > index 2f77a7709e2c..834ea661a146 100644 > --- a/src/libnftables.c > +++ b/src/libnftables.c > @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static int nft_netlink(struct nft_ctx *nft, > { > uint32_t batch_seqnum, seqnum = 0, num_cmds = 0; > struct nftnl_batch *batch; > - struct netlink_ctx ctx; > + struct netlink_ctx ctx = { .msgs = msgs, .nft = nft }; Use '.list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(ctx.list),' here. Refer to cache_update() in src/rule.c for inspiration. :) > struct cmd *cmd; > struct mnl_err *err, *tmp; > LIST_HEAD(err_list); > @@ -32,16 +32,13 @@ static int nft_netlink(struct nft_ctx *nft, > if (list_empty(cmds)) > return 0; > > - batch = mnl_batch_init(); > + init_list_head(&ctx.list); Drop this. > + > + ctx.batch = batch = mnl_batch_init(); Move ctx.batch init into declaration as well. Drop dedicated 'batch' variable and replace by 'ctx.batch'. Thanks, Phil