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Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:53:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	w@....eu
Cc:	drosenberg@...curity.com, security@...nel.org,
	grundler@...isc-linux.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeffm@...e.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kyle@...artin.ca
Subject: Re: [Security] [PATCH v4] drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.c: fix union
 member name in DE4X5_GET_REG ioctl

From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:36:02 +0200

> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:34:41PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
>> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:30:36 -0400
>> 
>> > Tiring doesn't begin to describe it.  Formatting undamaged.
>> 
>> :-)  Thanks.
>> 
>> > This was previously reported as a security issue due to leakage of
>> > uninitialized stack memory.  Jeff Mahoney pointed out that this is
>> > incorrect since the copied data is from a union (rather than a struct).
>> > Therefore, this patch is only under consideration for the sake of
>> > correctness, and is not security relevant. 
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
>> > Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>
>> 
>> Applied.
> 
> David, just for the record, as was already reported on the list, this
> fix is finally more a cleanup than a security fix because "tmp" is a
> union and not a struct, so tmp.addr == tmp.lval.

I can read, thanks :-)

That's why I applied it to net-next-2.6 and not net-2.6
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