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Subject: Designated initializers, struct randomization and addressing?
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 17:00 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> Prepare to mark sensitive kernel structures for randomization by making
sure they're using designated initializers.

About the designated initializer patches,
which by themselves are fine of course,
and the fundamental randomization plugin,
c guarantees that struct member ordering
is as specified.

how is the code to be verified so that
any use of things like offsetof and any
address/indexing is not impacted?