From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri,  6 Jul 2018 10:12:53 -0400

> From: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com>
> 
> Recent UDP GSO and SO_TXTIME features added new fields to cookie
> structs.
> 
> When adding a field, all sites where a struct is initialized have to
> be updated, which is a lot of boilerplate. Alternatively, a field can
> be initialized selectively, but this is fragile. I introduced a bug
> in udp gso where an uninitialized field was read. See also fix commit
> ("9887cba19978 ip: limit use of gso_size to udp").
> 
> Introduce initializers for structs ipcm(6)_cookie and sockc_cookie.
> 
> patch 1..3 do exactly this.
> patch 4..5 make ipv4 and ipv6 handle cookies the same way and
>            remove some boilerplate in doing so.
> patch 6    removes the udp gso branch that needed the above fix

Series applied, thanks Willem.

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