Re: Interesting behavior with struct initiailization

[Bhadrinath <bitstrat () gmail com>]

One solution to ensure no padding bits are copied uninitialized,

    struct test{ int a; char b; int c;};


    unsigned char r[sizeof arg];

    struct test  arg = { .a = 1, .b = 2, .c = 3 };
    .
    .
    // Do all operations on arg and just before passing it to the function
    .
    .
    memset(r,0,sizeof r); // initialize everything to zero
    memcpy(r+offsetof(struct test,a),&arg.a,sizeof arg.a); 
    memcpy(r+offsetof(struct test,b),&arg.b,sizeof arg.b);
    memcpy(r+offsetof(struct test,c),&arg.c,sizeof arg.c);

    //now pass r to the function
    Copy_to_user(ptr, r, sizeof(r));

   Comments and ideas are welcome

With Regards
Bhadrinath