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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] strscpy: zero any trailing garbage bytes in the
 destination
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:31:52 +0200
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* Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> wrote:

> It's possible that the destination can be shadowed in userspace
> (as, for example, the perf buffers are now).  So we should take
> care not to leak data that could be inspected by userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>

Please always preserve credits for who found the bug:

  Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

Also, you should credit the kbuild-bot for the cross-arch build breakages that 
your other patches address:

  Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

Thanks,

	Ingo