From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759556AbcLQQ5t (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2016 11:57:49 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:41792 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758946AbcLQQ5r (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2016 11:57:47 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 11:57:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20161217.115745.140164763267728629.davem@davemloft.net> To: keescook@chromium.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-decnet-user@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: use designated initializers From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20161217005858.GA140223@beast> References: <20161217005858.GA140223@beast> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 25.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Sat, 17 Dec 2016 07:58:29 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Kees Cook Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:58:58 -0800 > 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. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Applied, although "decnet: " would have been a much better subsystem prefix.