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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: use designated initializers
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 8:57 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> 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 <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> Applied, although "decnet: " would have been a much better
> subsystem prefix.

Thanks! Yeah, I had corrected that in my tree already in case there
was a v2 needed. I was working off an auto-splitting script that I
taught to guess at prefixes by looking at commit logs. It didn't work
very well. ;) We need another field in MAINTAINERS. :)

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Nexus Security

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