linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] viafb security fix

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Message-ID: <20100916080456.0f50ec6a@bike.lwn.net>
Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:04:56 -0600
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@....de>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] viafb security fix

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:20:10 +0200
Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@....de> wrote:

> It contains a single patch to initialize the memory before it is copied to 
> userspace. As this issue could be a security flaw it would be good to have this 
> patch in the next release.

This one seems worth directing toward the stable tree as well.

jon
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