linux-kernel - Re: ALSA: compress: Memset timestamp structure to zero.

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Message-ID: <20160823160100.GZ2890@localhost>
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2016 21:31:00 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>,
        Krishnankutty Kolathappilly <kkolat@...eaurora.org>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ALSA: compress: Memset timestamp structure to zero.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 03:45:38PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:40:37 +0200,
> Luis Henriques wrote:
> > 
> > From: Krishnankutty Kolathappilly <kkolat@...eaurora.org>
> > 
> > snd_compr_tstamp is initialized using aggregate initialization
> > that does not zero out the padded bytes. Initialize timestamp
> > structure to zero using memset to avoid this.
> > 
> > CRs-Fixed: 568717
> > Change-Id: I7a7d188705161f06201f1a1f2945bb6acd633d5d
> > Signed-off-by: Krishnankutty Kolathappilly <kkolat@...eaurora.org>
> 
> Vinod already informed me about this, and we agreed that it doesn't
> make any sense.  What does it really fix?

Btw is there a process to make this CVE invalidated?

-- 
~Vinod