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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>
Kees Cook authoredA 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>