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Re: [PATCH] ovl: Use designated initializers

From Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] ovl: Use designated initializers
Date 2017-04-04 16:10 +0200
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> For these cases, use { }, which will be zero-filled, instead of
> undesignated NULLs.

Queued up for 4.12.

Thanks,
Miklos

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[PATCH] ovl: Use designated initializers Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-03-29 23:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] ovl: Use designated initializers Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> - 2017-04-04 16:10 +0200

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