Thread (152 messages) 152 messages, 21 authors, 2021-08-13

Re: [PATCH 54/64] ipv6: Use struct_group() to zero rt6_info

From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-31 15:02:21
Also in: dri-devel, linux-hardening, linux-kbuild, linux-staging, linux-wireless, lkml, netdev

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 11:58:50AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:58:45 -0700 Kees Cook wrote:
quoted
In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
field bounds checking for memset(), avoid intentionally writing across
neighboring fields.

Add struct_group() to mark region of struct rt6_info that should be
initialized to zero.
memset_after() ?
Oh, hah. Yes. I will adjust for v2.

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Kees Cook
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