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Re: [PATCH] scsi/bfa: use designated initializers

From Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] scsi/bfa: use designated initializers
Date 2017-01-04 00:40 +0100
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:33 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 05:05:15PM -0800, Kees Cook 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.
>
> Instead of further bloating the idiotic dispatch table just kill it off
> entirely:

Sounds fine to me! Is this going via your tree?

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Nexus Security

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[PATCH] scsi/bfa: use designated initializers Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-12-17 02:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] scsi/bfa: use designated initializers Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-12-21 09:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] scsi/bfa: use designated initializers Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-01-04 00:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] scsi/bfa: use designated initializers Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-01-08 10:50 +0100

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