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

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Date:   Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:38:19 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>,
        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 Sun, 2016-08-21 at 21:35 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> 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?
> cppcheck (http://cppcheck.sourceforge.net/)

This should probably be mentioned in the changelog.

What about mrst_lvds_find_best_pll ?