Re: [PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory in user structs

[Pekka Enberg]

On 9.11.2010 22.50, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi Pekka,
>
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:43:07PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Kees Cook<kees.cook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > CVE-2010-4072
> > >
> > > The old shm interface will leak a few bytes of stack contents. Explicitly
> > > clear structure using memset instead of C99-style initialization in case
> > > there are ever holes in the packing.
> > >
> > > Cc: stable<stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook<kees.cook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > This looks like a genuine bug fix but I don't see this patch in
> > mainline. Why is that?
> No one has committed it. I don't know why; I've sent it a few times now.

Andrew, would you mind picking this up and route it to the appropriate 
person if necessary?

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>

            Pekka
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/