Tetsuo Handa a écrit :
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> Clement LECIGNE wrote:
>> Here is a patch that zero the whole sockaddr_at structure before
>> processing it. It should fix this bug.
> 
> Same kind of bug at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/25/51 .
> I wonder why not zero'ing sockaddr at the caller rather than
> zero'ing at individual ->getname(). Doing so will save some lines.
> --

It would not help zeroing buffer before calling ->getname(), since
getname() will overwrite it with a memcpy(buffer, &somestruct, sizeof(somestruct));


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