Re: [PATCH 1/8] staging: dream: fix information leak to userland

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Structure msm_audio_stats is copied to userland with some fields unitialized.
> > It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory.
> > Also struct msm_audio_config has field "unused" of type array of 3 elements,
> > not 4.  Instead of this, initialize field "type".
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/audio_aac.c |    3 ++-
> 
> {sigh}
> 
> I'd really like to just drop this whole driver as I feel it's _way_
> behind whatever anyone is really using "in the wild".
> 
> Actually, I doubt that anyone even uses this thing, do they?

Not sure, you should definitely talk to codeaurora folks.

> Any objection to me just dropping the drivers/staging/dream/ tree?
> People should be working on the chipset-specific driver tree here
> instead, right?

codeaurora people should know...

> Pavel, it looks like you're not doing any dream work anymore, any
> problems with me dropping it?

Too busy to do any real work on Dream, sorry :-(.
								Pavel
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