Re: [git pull] coredump infoleak fix

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu May 28 2020 - 15:10:11 EST


On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:06 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It doesn't fix all problems, though - you don't get an infoleak, but
> you do get incorrect data...

Oh, I'm not saying it should replace any fix to regset->get(). I'm
just saying it is in addition to.

So if a regset has a reason to return less than the asked-for data, it
can do so and there's no leak.

Linus