From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753972Ab1CQC0P (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:26:15 -0400 Received: from e24smtp03.br.ibm.com ([32.104.18.24]:39716 "EHLO e24smtp03.br.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753073Ab1CQC0J (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:26:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4D81713B.2060001@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:26:03 -0300 From: Rajiv Andrade User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Morris CC: Linux kernel mailing list , Peter Huewe Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] TPM driver robustness fixes References: <4D81708D.5090607@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4D81708D.5090607@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-cbid: 11031702-9254-0000-0000-0000011CE05B Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/16/2011 11:23 PM, Rajiv Andrade wrote: > Hi James, > > > The following changes since commit > 2e270d84223262a38d4755c61d55f5c73ea89e56: > > Merge branch 'for-linus' of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 (2011-03-16 > 13:26:17 -0700) > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://tpmdd.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/tpmdd/tpmdd/ for-james > > Peter Huewe (3): > > This patch changes the call of tpm_transmit by supplying the > size of the userspace buffer instead of TPM_BUFSIZE > > This patch fixes information leakage to the userspace by > initializing the data buffer to zero > > Since the buffer might contain security related data it might be > a good idea to zero the buffer after we have copied it to userspace. Given the nature of these changes, they should go to current linus as bug fixes. Thanks, Rajiv