linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: use designated initializers

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Date:   Sat, 17 Dec 2016 13:33:00 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-decnet-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: use designated initializers

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 8:57 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:58:58 -0800
>
>> Prepare to mark sensitive kernel structures for randomization by making
>> sure they're using designated initializers. These were identified during
>> allyesconfig builds of x86, arm, and arm64, with most initializer fixes
>> extracted from grsecurity.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>
> Applied, although "decnet: " would have been a much better
> subsystem prefix.

Thanks! Yeah, I had corrected that in my tree already in case there
was a v2 needed. I was working off an auto-splitting script that I
taught to guess at prefixes by looking at commit logs. It didn't work
very well. ;) We need another field in MAINTAINERS. :)

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Nexus Security