Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH net] rds: Prevent kernel-infoleak in rds_notify_queue_get()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Aug 02 2020 - 18:24:13 EST


On Sun, 2020-08-02 at 19:10 -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 08:38:33AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>
> > I'm using {} instead of {0} because of this GCC bug.
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53119
>
> This is why the {} extension exists..

There is no guarantee that the gcc struct initialization {}
extension also zeros padding.