IB/core: uverbs copy to struct or zero helper
Add a helper to zero fill fields before copying data to UVERBS_ATTR_STRUCT. As UVERBS_ATTR_STRUCT can be used as an extensible struct, we want to make sure that if the user supplies us with a struct that has new fields that we are not aware of, we return them zeroed to the user. This helper should be used when using UVERBS_ATTR_STRUCT for an extendable data structure and there is a need to make sure that extended members of the struct, that the kernel doesn't handle, are returned zeroed to the user. This is needed due to the fact that UVERBS_ATTR_STRUCT allows non-zero values for members after 'last' member. Signed-off-by: Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Majd Dibbiny <majd@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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