linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 00/17] Enable strict compile-time memcpy() fortify checks

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Date:   Thu, 16 Dec 2021 23:04:41 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] Enable strict compile-time memcpy() fortify checks

On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:33:14 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:

> This is "phase 2" (of several phases) to hardening the kernel against
> memcpy-based buffer overflows. With nearly all compile-time fixes
> landed, the next step is to turn on the warning globally to keep future
> compile-time issues from happening, and let us take the step towards
> run-time checking (and towards a new API for flexible array structures).
> 
> This series is based on latest linux-next, and several patches here
> have already been taken by subsystem maintainers but haven't appeared
> in linux-next yet, and are noted below.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 5.17/scsi-queue, thanks!

[15/17] scsi: lpfc: Use struct_group() to initialize struct lpfc_cgn_info
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/532adda9f405

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering