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While testing for places where zero-sized destinations were still showing up in the kernel, sock_copy() and inet_reqsk_clone() were found, which are using very specific memcpy() offsets for both avoiding a portion of struct sock, and copying beyond the end of it (since struct sock is really just a common header before the protocol-specific allocation). Instead of trying to unravel this historical lack of container_of(), just switch to unsafe_memcpy(), since that's effectively what was happening already (memcpy() wasn't checking 0-sized destinations while the code base was being converted away from fake flexible arrays). Avoid the following false positive warning with future changes to CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE: memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 3068) of destination "&nsk->__sk_common.skc_dontcopy_end" at net/core/sock.c:2057 (size 0) Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240304212928.make.772-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.