netdev - Re: [PATCH] net sched: fix kernel leak in act

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Date:	Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:29:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffm@...e.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net sched: fix kernel leak in act_police

From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:21:42 -0400

>  While reviewing commit 1c40be12f7d8ca1d387510d39787b12e512a7ce8, I
>  audited other users of tc_action_ops->dump for information leaks.
> 
>  That commit covered almost all of them but act_police still had a leak.
> 
>  opt.limit and opt.capab aren't zeroed out before the structure is
>  passed out.
> 
>  This patch uses the C99 initializers to zero everything unused out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
> Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>

Applied.
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