linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: cciss: fix information leak to userland

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Date:	Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:32:10 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
To:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>
CC:	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mike Miller <mike.miller@...com>,
	"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"iss_storagedev@...com" <iss_storagedev@...com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: cciss: fix information leak to userland

On 2010-10-27 09:40, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Structure IOCTL_Command_struct is copied to userland with
> some padding fields at the end of the struct unitialized.
> It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory.

Thanks, applied.


-- 
Jens Axboe

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