From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Matteo Semenzato <mattew8898@gmail.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, abbotti@mev.co.uk,
hsweeten@visionengravers.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: fix information leak
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:44:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150310064440.GK10964@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425931697-10301-1-git-send-email-mattew8898@gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 09:08:17PM +0100, Matteo Semenzato wrote:
> From: Matteo Semenzato <mattew8898@gmail.com>
>
> The comedi_cmd struct has an hole after chanlist_len that could contain uninitialized
> memory, this struct is copied to userspace.
>
Is this a Smatch warning? If so then, I appologize because it's a false
positive. You really need to have the cross function database built for
that test to work.
The struct is initialized in __comedi_get_user_cmd().
regards,
dan carpenter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-10 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-09 20:08 [PATCH] Staging: comedi: fix information leak Matteo Semenzato
2015-03-09 23:34 ` Ian Abbott
2015-03-10 6:44 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
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