linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fs: select: fix information leak to userspace

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Date:	Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:12:59 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: select: fix information leak to userspace

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:32:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:20:48 +0100
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Le lundi 22 novembre 2010 __ 15:50 -0800, Andrew Morton a __crit :
> > 
> > > Well.  We certainly assume in many places that
> > > 
> > > 	struct foo {
> > > 		int a;
> > > 		int b;
> > > 	} f = {
> > > 		.a = 1,
> > > 	};
> > > 
> > > will initialise b to zero.  But I doubt if much code at all assumes
> > > that this initialisation patterm will reliably zero out *holes* in the
> > > struct.
> > > 
> > 
> > We did such assertions in the past, we were wrong.

Well, that sucks...  I know I wrote some code that relied on holes
getting zeroed as well.  Is there no option to GCC to make this work?

regards,
dan carpenter

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