netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtool actions

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Date:	Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:24:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	kees.cook@...onical.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...hat.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtool
 actions

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:34:44 +0100

> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 14:10 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Several other ethtool functions leave heap uncleared (potentially) by
>> drivers. Some interfaces appear safe (eeprom, etc), in that the sizes
>> are well controlled. In some situations (e.g. unchecked error conditions),
>> the heap will remain unchanged in areas before copying back to userspace.
>> Note that these are less of an issue since these all require CAP_NET_ADMIN.
>> 
>> Cc: stable@...nel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
 ...
> Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

So I've applied Kees's patch to net-2.6, and I'll merge net-2.6
into net-next-2.6 so I can resolve the vmalloc/kzalloc merge
conflict before Stephen Rothwell and others have to deal with it
in -next.

Thanks!
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