Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2025-07-25
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[PATCH net-next 2/3] wireguard: peer: Replace sockaddr with sockaddr_inet

From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-07-22 17:18:36
Also in: linux-hardening, linux-sctp, lkml
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest, wireguard secure network tunnel · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Jason A. Donenfeld

As part of the removal of the variably-sized sockaddr for kernel
internals, replace struct sockaddr with sockaddr_inet in the endpoint
union.

No binary changes; the union size remains unchanged due to sockaddr_inet
matching the size of sockaddr_in6.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
---
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/wireguard/peer.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireguard/peer.h b/drivers/net/wireguard/peer.h
index 76e4d3128ad4..718fb42bdac7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireguard/peer.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireguard/peer.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ struct wg_device;
 
 struct endpoint {
 	union {
-		struct sockaddr addr;
+		struct sockaddr_inet addr;     /* Large enough for both address families */
 		struct sockaddr_in addr4;
 		struct sockaddr_in6 addr6;
 	};
-- 
2.34.1
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