linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] TPM driver robustness fixes

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Message-ID: <4D81713B.2060001@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:26:03 -0300
From:	Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
CC:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Huewe <huewe.external.infineon@...glemail.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] TPM driver robustness fixes



On 03/16/2011 11:23 PM, Rajiv Andrade wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>
> The following changes since commit 
> 2e270d84223262a38d4755c61d55f5c73ea89e56:
>
>   Merge branch 'for-linus' of 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 (2011-03-16 
> 13:26:17 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>   git://tpmdd.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/tpmdd/tpmdd/ for-james
>
> Peter Huewe (3):
>
>       This patch changes the call of tpm_transmit by supplying the 
> size of the userspace buffer instead of TPM_BUFSIZE
>
>       This patch fixes information leakage to the userspace by 
> initializing the data buffer to zero
>
>       Since the buffer might contain security related data it might be 
> a good idea to zero the buffer after we have copied it to userspace.

Given the nature of these changes, they should go to current linus as 
bug fixes.

Thanks,
Rajiv

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