On 10.11, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 06:58:05PM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > On 10.11, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 06:30:34PM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > > > > __module_get(src->ops->type->owner);
> > > > > - memcpy(dst, src, src->ops->size);
> > > > > + if (src->ops->clone) {
> > > > > + memcpy(dst, src, sizeof(*src));
> > > >
> > > > Why copy if we clone? The function should do a full initialization if
> > > > it is
> > > > present I would say.
> > >
> > > This is not copying the variable length data area of the expression,
> > > just the expression head.
> >
> > Ah right. But that is only ->ops. We can set this directly, should generate
> > better code and be easier to understand.
>
> I left the memcpy just to avoid that we forget in case we ever get
> more data there (unlikely). So I'll set the pointer instead.
>
> If no further objections, will make those two changes locally and will
> push this upstream.
No further objections :)
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