netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 02/14] net: Add a new socket option for a future transmit time.

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:05:50 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Jesus Sanchez-Palencia <jesus.sanchez-palencia@...el.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, jan.altenberg@...utronix.de,
        vinicius.gomes@...el.com, kurt.kanzenbach@...utronix.de,
        henrik@...tad.us, richardcochran@...il.com,
        ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org, ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org,
        mlichvar@...hat.com, willemb@...gle.com, jhs@...atatu.com,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 02/14] net: Add a new socket option for a
 future transmit time.



On 06/27/2018 04:07 PM, Jesus Sanchez-Palencia wrote:
 
> I'm failing to see how... There is a memset() in sock.c:1147 clearing all the 8
> bytes that we later use to (explicitly) assign each member of the struct. Aren't
> the 2 extra bytes sanitized, then? What have I missed?

Nothing, it seems I missed the memset(), it was not seen in the context of your patch
and I have not checked the whole function.