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string.h: Introduce memset_startat() for wiping trailing members and padding
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tue, 18 May 2021 03:16:57 +0000 (20:16 -0700)
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:53:57 +0000 (19:53 -0700)
commit2d7b09fb0dccf59b1586eb594c518ece5ebb589f
treed9f14140691ccbfb208ed001acdcf27202d77032
parent9b2ad17fc0ebe26b2cacfbfe84335912cfb6bc84
string.h: Introduce memset_startat() for wiping trailing members and padding

A common idiom in kernel code is to wipe the contents of a structure
starting from a given member. These open-coded cases are usually difficult
to read and very sensitive to struct layout changes. Like memset_after(),
introduce a new helper, memset_startat() that takes the target struct
instance, the byte to write, and the member name where zeroing should
start.

Note that this doesn't zero padding preceding the target member. For
those cases, memset_after() should be used on the preceding member.

Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Francis Laniel <laniel_francis@privacyrequired.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
include/linux/string.h
lib/memcpy_kunit.c