From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi <bprakash@broadcom.com>,
James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:20:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130724142048.GV6123@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1374637362.18653.13.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 04:42:42AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> This looks like a candidate for stable:
Don't know if it's a security issue, but should be fine for stable.
-Andi
>
> commit 16da05b1158d1bcb31656e636a8736a663b1cf1f
> Author: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
> Date: Mon Sep 3 20:50:30 2012 +0200
>
> [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp
>
> Typically this sort of bug can result in leaking kernel memory to
> userland, which is a security issue, but I don't know whether that's
> true in this case.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-24 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-24 3:42 [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp Ben Hutchings
2013-07-24 13:16 ` [stable] " Luis Henriques
2013-07-24 14:20 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2013-07-27 14:48 ` Ben Hutchings
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