On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 11:24 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jesse Gross
> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:06:14 -0700
>
>> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_alloc(void)
>> struct flow_stats *stats;
>> int node;
>>
>> - flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +
From: Jesse Gross
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:06:14 -0700
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_alloc(void)
> struct flow_stats *stats;
> int node;
>
> - flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
> + flow = kmem_cache_alloc(flow_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
>
On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 19:06 -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>
> Fixes: 07148121 ("openvswitch: Eliminate memset() from flow_extract.")
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross
> ---
> net/openvswitch/flow_table.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_table
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Jesse Gross wrote:
> OVS tries to be clever about not touching the parts of a flow that
> aren't used. This can include leaving pieces of memory uninitialized
> if the mask is zero and therefore the value would be ignored anyways.
>
> While this works fine for the