linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/gma500: dont expose bytes from kernel stack

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Message-ID: <acbed5ba-de02-17f4-c22e-0c3e36ca1c5e@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:35:40 +0200
From:   Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@...il.com>
Cc:     David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/gma500: dont expose bytes from kernel stack

On 08/21/2016 08:46 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-08-21 at 20:39 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>> Components m1, m2, p2, dot, vco of variable clock should be
>> initialized to avoid bytes from the kernel stack to be
>> exposed.
> 
> How was this found? visual code inspection?

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