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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:15:55 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>
Cc: "AKASHI, Takahiro" <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, 
	park jinbum <jinb.park7@...il.com>, 
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Introduction

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:09 PM, PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu> wrote:
>> fs/read_write.c: In function ‘new_sync_write’:
>> fs/read_write.c:490:15: note: userspace variable will be forcibly initialized
>>   struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf, .iov_len = len };
>
> this is a designated initializer which doesn't match the object constructor
> the plugin looks for.

What would an object constructor look like? When I had it report the
times it skipped forced initialization, the code mostly looked like
designated initializers. All I found in the gimple were SSAs. Nothing
jumped out at me as being an initializer.

-- 
Kees Cook
Nexus Security

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