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A common idiom in kernel code is to wipe the contents of a structure starting from a given member. These open-coded cases are usually difficult to read and very sensitive to struct layout changes. Like memset_after(), introduce a new helper, memset_startat() that takes the target struct instance, the byte to write, and the member name where zeroing should start. Note that this doesn't zero padding preceding the target member. For those cases, memset_after() should be used on the preceding member. 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>
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.