From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>,
Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] cciss: info leak in cciss_ioctl32_passthru()
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 04:16:41 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130604111640.GE23987@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1306041602160.7145@erqung.pbz>
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 04:09:10PM +0530, P J P wrote:
> Hello Dan,
> ===
> diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> index 6374dc1..34971aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> @@ -1201,6 +1201,7 @@ static int cciss_ioctl32_passthru(struct
> block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
> int err;
> u32 cp;
>
> + memset(&arg64, 0, sizeof(arg64));
> ...
> ===
>
> This exact same patch was included back in 2010 by Mr Vasiliy Kulikov.
>
> -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/7ab5118d7c2be650bc936894f159dc1c597badae
>
> But there is no entry/log of its reversal. Any idea why was it removed?
No no. Vasily patched cciss_ioctl32_big_passthru() and this patch
changes cciss_ioctl32_passthru().
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-04 11:18 UTC|newest]
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2013-06-04 10:39 [patch] cciss: info leak in cciss_ioctl32_passthru() P J P
2013-06-04 11:16 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2013-06-04 11:48 ` P J P
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2013-06-03 9:26 Dan Carpenter
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