netdev - Re: [PATCH] tc: Fix unitialized kernel memory leak

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Date:	Wed, 2 Sep 2009 20:09:36 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tc: Fix unitialized kernel memory leak

Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 02:40:09PM CEST, eric.dumazet@...il.com wrote:
>Three bytes of uninitialized kernel memory are currently leaked to user
>
>Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>

>---
>diff --git a/net/sched/sch_api.c b/net/sched/sch_api.c
>index 24d17ce..fdb694e 100644
>--- a/net/sched/sch_api.c
>+++ b/net/sched/sch_api.c
>@@ -1456,6 +1456,8 @@ static int tc_fill_tclass(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
> 	nlh = NLMSG_NEW(skb, pid, seq, event, sizeof(*tcm), flags);
> 	tcm = NLMSG_DATA(nlh);
> 	tcm->tcm_family = AF_UNSPEC;
>+	tcm->tcm__pad1 = 0;
>+	tcm->tcm__pad2 = 0;
> 	tcm->tcm_ifindex = qdisc_dev(q)->ifindex;
> 	tcm->tcm_parent = q->handle;
> 	tcm->tcm_handle = q->handle;
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