netdev - Re: CVE-2014-9900 fix is not upstream

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Message-ID: <1472128868.24772.12.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:41:08 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
        Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        ben@...adent.org.uk, luis.henriques@...onical.com,
        avijitnsec@...eaurora.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2014-9900 fix is not upstream


> struct ethtool_wolinfo {
>         __u32   cmd;
>         __u32   supported;
>         __u32   wolopts;
>         __u8    sopass[SOPASS_MAX];     // 6, actually
> };
> 
> we could do
> 
> struct ethtool_wolinfo {
>         __u32   cmd;
>         __u32   supported;
>         __u32   wolopts;
>         __u8    sopass[SOPASS_MAX];     // 6, actually
> 	__u8	reserved[2];
> };
> 
> and then the compiler has to properly treat it, since it's no longer
> unnamed padding.
> 

Although, on some architectures, that could actually break the ABI by
changing the size, oh well.

johannes