linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] staging: dream: fix information leak to userland

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Date:	Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:45:09 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>,
	Iliyan Malchev <ibm@...roid.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	San Mehat <san@...roid.com>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] staging: dream: fix information leak to userland

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:01:37AM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Structure msm_audio_stats is copied to userland with some fields unitialized.
> It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory.
> Also struct msm_audio_config has field "unused" of type array of 3 elements,
> not 4.  Instead of this, initialize field "type".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/audio_aac.c |    3 ++-

{sigh}

I'd really like to just drop this whole driver as I feel it's _way_
behind whatever anyone is really using "in the wild".

Actually, I doubt that anyone even uses this thing, do they?

Any objection to me just dropping the drivers/staging/dream/ tree?
People should be working on the chipset-specific driver tree here
instead, right?

Pavel, it looks like you're not doing any dream work anymore, any
problems with me dropping it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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