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Message-ID: <8b48dac4c40127366e91855306d24e07eb0b81d9.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 10:06:51 +0200
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 44/63] mac80211: Use memset_after() to clear tx status
On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 09:08 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-08-17 at 23:05 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> >
> > @@ -275,12 +275,11 @@ static void carl9170_tx_release(struct kref *ref)
> > if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ar))
> > return;
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > - BUILD_BUG_ON(
> > - offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, status.ack_signal) != 20);
> > -
> > - memset(&txinfo->status.ack_signal, 0,
> > - sizeof(struct ieee80211_tx_info) -
> > - offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, status.ack_signal));
> > + /*
> > + * Should this call ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status() instead of clearing
> > + * manually? txinfo->status.rates do not seem to be used here.
> > + */
>
> Since you insist, I went digging :)
>
> It should not, carl9170_tx_fill_rateinfo() has filled the rate
> information before we get to this point.
Otherwise, looks fine, FWIW.
Are you going to apply all of these together somewhere? I (we) can't,
since memset_after() doesn't exist yet.
johannes
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