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

Re: [PATCH 47/64] btrfs: Use memset_after() to clear end of struct

From: David Sterba <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-09 11:23:27
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On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 08:25:51AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:33:37PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 02:56:31PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:42:15AM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 01:58:38PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
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 	}
 	if (need_reset) {
-		memset(&item->generation_v2, 0,
-			sizeof(*item) - offsetof(struct btrfs_root_item,
-					generation_v2));
-
Please add
		/* Clear all members from generation_v2 onwards */
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+		memset_after(item, 0, level);
Perhaps there should be another helper memset_starting()? That would
make these cases a bit more self-documenting.
That would be better, yes.
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+		memset_starting(item, 0, generation_v2);
memset_from?
For v2, I bikeshed this to "memset_startat" since "from" is semantically
close to "source" which I thought might be confusing. (I, too, did not
like "starting".) :)
memset_startat works for me, thanks.
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