netdev - Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH net] rds: Prevent kernel-infoleak in rds_notify_queue

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Date:   Sun, 02 Aug 2020 15:23:58 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@...il.com>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        rds-devel@....oracle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH net] rds: Prevent kernel-infoleak
 in rds_notify_queue_get()

On Sun, 2020-08-02 at 19:10 -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 08:38:33AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> 
> > I'm using {} instead of {0} because of this GCC bug.
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53119
> 
> This is why the {} extension exists..

There is no guarantee that the gcc struct initialization {}
extension also zeros padding.