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A common idiom in kernel code is to wipe the contents of a structure after a given member. This is especially useful in places where there is trailing padding. These open-coded cases are usually difficult to read and very sensitive to struct layout changes. Introduce a new helper, memset_after() that takes the target struct instance, the byte to write, and the member name after which the zeroing should start. Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Francis Laniel <laniel_francis@privacyrequired.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>