When an initializer is provided to a variable, the Linux kernel relied
on the compiler to zero-initialize unspecified fields, as clarified in
https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg1007244.html.
But clang doesn't guarantee this:
1. For a union type, if an empty initializer is given, clang only
initializes bytes for the first field, left bytes for other (larger)
fields are marked as undef. Accessing those undef bytes can lead
to undefined behaviors.
2. For a union type, if an initializer explicitly sets a field, left
bytes for other (larger) fields are marked as undef.
3. When an initializer is given, clang doesn't zero initialize padding.
So this patch makes the following change:
1. In C, when an initializer is provided for a variable, zero-initialize
undef and padding fields in the initializer.
2. Document the change in LanguageExtensions.rst.
As suggested in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/78034#issuecomment-2183437928,
the change isn't required by C23, but it's standards conforming to do
so.
Fixes: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/97459
