netdev - Re: [net-next 05/15] ice: fix stack leakage

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Date:   Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:25:48 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
        Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 05/15] ice: fix stack leakage

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:46:02 -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> 
> In the case of an invalid virtchannel request the driver
> would return uninitialized data to the VF from the PF stack
> which is a bug.  Fix by initializing the stack variable
> earlier in the function before any return paths can be taken.

I'd argue users may not want hypervisor stack to get leaked into the
VMs, and therefore this should really have a fixes tag...