Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:05:42 -0600
From: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 02:11:55PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> --- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c
> @@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ struct gru_mm_struct *gru_register_mmu_notifier(void)
>  			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  		STAT(gms_alloc);
>  		spin_lock_init(&gms->ms_asid_lock);
> +		gms->ms_notifier.flags = 0;
>  		gms->ms_notifier.ops = &gru_mmuops;
>  		atomic_set(&gms->ms_refcnt, 1);
>  		init_waitqueue_head(&gms->ms_wait_queue);
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c

There is a kzalloc() just above this:
	gms = kzalloc(sizeof(*gms), GFP_KERNEL);

Is that not sufficient to clear the 'flags' field?