Re: [PATCH] Fix a SEGV due to uninitialised mask

Filipe Brandenburger <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:39:09 -0800

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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Daniel J Blueman <[email protected]> wrote:
> As node_cpu_mask_v2 is not defined as local to the compilation unit with
> 'static', it is not guaranteed to be initialised to zero (ie in the .bss).
> This was leading to some SEGVs we've seen.
>
> Also mark another internal function local to the compilation unit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <[email protected]>

Pushed. Thanks for the contribution!

Cheers,
Filipe