netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: sysctl interface leaks 16 bytes of kernel memory

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Message-Id: <20121011.151344.618364814979945725.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:13:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: sysctl interface leaks 16 bytes of kernel memory

From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:24:14 +0100

> From: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> If the rc_dereference of tcp_fastopen_ctx ever fails then we copy 16 bytes
> of kernel stack into the proc result.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.
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