Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/AER: Avoid info leak in __print_tlp_header

[Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 09:55:03AM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> Commit fab4c256a58b ("PCI/AER: Add a TLP header print helper")
> introduced the helper function __print_tlp_header, but contrary to the
> intention, the behaviour did change: Since we're taking the address of
> the parameter t, the first 4 or 8 bytes printed will be the value of
> the pointer t itself, and the remaining 12 or 8 bytes will be
> who-knows-what (something from the stack).
> 
> We want to show the values of the four members of the struct
> aer_header_log_regs; that can be done without ugly and error-prone
> casts. On little-endian this should produce the same output as
> originally intended, and since no-one has complained about getting
> garbage output so far, I think big-endian should be ok too.
> 
> Fixes: fab4c256a58b ("PCI/AER: Add a TLP header print helper")
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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