linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sgi-xp: use designated initializers

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Date:   Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:24:14 -0600
From:   Robin Holt <robinmholt@...il.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Cliff Whickman <cpw@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sgi-xp: use designated initializers

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> 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.

I guess I don't understand the context enough here to give you a
Signed-off-by.  Can you give us more background on this randomization?

>From what I see in the code here, I can see you are providing
equivalent functionality and I would give it a signed-off-by, but I am
not sure this randomization of which you speak is not going to cause
problems for XP, XPC, XPNET, and XPMEM (out of tree GPL kernel
module).

Robin