# \[PATCH v2 56/63\] RDMA/mlx5: Use struct\_group() to zero struct mlx5\_ib\_mr

- From: Kees Cook \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-08-18 06:18:24 
- List: linux-staging
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-staging/2021/08/1481241
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-rdma/2021/08/1481241/t.md

```text
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 mlx5_ib_mr that should be
initialized to zero.

Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Doug Ledford <redacted>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h
index bf20a388eabe..f63bf204a7a1 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h
@@ -644,6 +644,7 @@ struct mlx5_ib_mr {
 	struct ib_umem *umem;
 
 	/* This is zero'd when the MR is allocated */
+	struct_group(cleared,
 	union {
 		/* Used only while the MR is in the cache */
 		struct {
@@ -691,12 +692,13 @@ struct mlx5_ib_mr {
 			bool is_odp_implicit;
 		};
 	};
+	);
 };
 
 /* Zero the fields in the mr that are variant depending on usage */
 static inline void mlx5_clear_mr(struct mlx5_ib_mr *mr)
 {
-	memset(mr->out, 0, sizeof(*mr) - offsetof(struct mlx5_ib_mr, out));
+	memset(&mr->cleared, 0, sizeof(mr->cleared));
 }
 
 static inline bool is_odp_mr(struct mlx5_ib_mr *mr)
-- 
2.30.2

```