Kees Cook <[email protected]> writes:
> In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
> field bounds checking for memset(), avoid intentionally writing across
> neighboring fields.
>
> Use memset_startat() so memset() doesn't get confused about writing
> beyond the destination member that is intended to be the starting point
> of zeroing through the end of the struct.
>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c
> index 432ade0842f6..70a07b4e9967 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c
> @@ -658,13 +658,11 @@ static void msc_buffer_clear_hw_header(struct msc *msc)
>
> list_for_each_entry(win, &msc->win_list, entry) {
> unsigned int blk;
> - size_t hw_sz = sizeof(struct msc_block_desc) -
> - offsetof(struct msc_block_desc, hw_tag);
>
> for_each_sg(win->sgt->sgl, sg, win->nr_segs, blk) {
> struct msc_block_desc *bdesc = sg_virt(sg);
>
> - memset(&bdesc->hw_tag, 0, hw_sz);
> + memset_startat(bdesc, 0, hw_tag);
> }
> }
> }
> --
> 2.30.2