From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [stable] [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:20:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20130724142048.GV6123@two.firstfloor.org> References: <1374637362.18653.13.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:55459 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753675Ab3GXOUu (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:20:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1374637362.18653.13.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Hutchings Cc: Andi Kleen , Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi , James Bottomley , stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi 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 > 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.