From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: Use memset_startat() to zero struct nf_conn
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:49:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yaacdlj7UX1StO5Y@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211118203113.1286928-1-keescook@chromium.org>
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 12:31:13PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
> field bounds checking for memset(), avoid intentionally writing across
> neighboring fields.
>
> Use memset_startat() to avoid confusing memset() about writing beyond
> the target struct member.
Applied to nf-next, thanks
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2021-11-18 20:31 [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: Use memset_startat() to zero struct nf_conn Kees Cook
2021-11-30 21:49 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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