Re: [PATCH 4/6] xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_tmpl()

[Steffen Klassert]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:33:41PM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote:
> The memory used for the template copy is a local stack variable. As
> struct xfrm_user_tmpl contains multiple holes added by the compiler for
> alignment, not initializing the memory will lead to leaking stack bytes
> to userland. Add an explicit memset(0) to avoid the info leak.
> 
> Initial version of the patch by Brad Spengler.
> 
> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patches 1-4:

Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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