linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: core: fix information leak to userland

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Message-ID: <502882.59497.qm@web180306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Date:	Sat, 6 Nov 2010 11:30:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Chris Frey <cdfrey@...rsquare.net>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: core: fix information leak to userland



--- On Sat, 11/6/10, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Are you sure that adding an initializer
> like this will zero out the 
> padding bytes?  It might be safer just to call
> memset.

ISTR the C standard says things get initted to
zero in this case too ... and that compilers will
as a rule use memset to do it.  One could look
at the generated code to make sure of that.

There's certainly a fair amount of code I've seen
that uses runtime initializers like that, to zero
memory.  I can't believe i's _all_ broken!  ;)

- Dave


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