linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] coredump infoleak fix

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Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 11:34:38 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] coredump infoleak fix

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:03 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> I'm wondering, shouldn't we also zero-initialize the dump data to
> begin with? See the patch below (untested).

I actually got this patch from Andrew today independently due to a
KMSAN report. Which I'm applying.

             Linus