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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2021-05-20 15:30:56 -0700
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2021-10-18 12:28:52 -0700
commita2c5062f391b970b9ecbe0f579c5e22822577ea3 (patch)
treeec532542380b1d027d619a2c0aaf0d2c45489e30
parent6dbefad40815a61aecbcf9b552e87ef57ab8cc7d (diff)
downloadlinux-a2c5062f391b970b9ecbe0f579c5e22822577ea3.tar.gz
btrfs: Use memset_startat() to clear end of struct
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: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/root-tree.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/root-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/root-tree.c
index 702dc5441f03..12ceb14a1141 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/root-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/root-tree.c
@@ -39,10 +39,8 @@ static void btrfs_read_root_item(struct extent_buffer *eb, int slot,
 		need_reset = 1;
 	}
 	if (need_reset) {
-		memset(&item->generation_v2, 0,
-			sizeof(*item) - offsetof(struct btrfs_root_item,
-					generation_v2));
-
+		/* Clear all members from generation_v2 onwards. */
+		memset_startat(item, 0, generation_v2);
 		generate_random_guid(item->uuid);
 	}
 }