linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] mtd: always initialize 'stats' in struct mtd_oob

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Date:   Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:41:11 +0200
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
Cc:     Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] mtd: always initialize 'stats' in struct mtd_oob_ops

On Wed, 2022-06-29 at 12:57:35 UTC, =?utf-8?b?TWljaGHFgiBLxJlwaWXFhA==?= wrote:
> As the 'stats' field in struct mtd_oob_ops is used in conditional
> expressions, ensure it is always zero-initialized in all such structures
> to prevent random stack garbage from being interpreted as a pointer.
> 
> Strictly speaking, this problem currently only needs to be fixed for
> struct mtd_oob_ops structures subsequently passed to mtd_read_oob().
> However, this commit goes a step further and makes all instances of
> struct mtd_oob_ops in the tree zero-initialized, in hope of preventing
> future problems, e.g. if struct mtd_req_stats gets extended with write
> statistics at some point.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel