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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: select: fix information leak to userspace
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:12:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101123051259.GF1522@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101122163234.5470e33e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:32:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:20:48 +0100
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Le lundi 22 novembre 2010 __ 15:50 -0800, Andrew Morton a __crit :
> > 
> > > Well.  We certainly assume in many places that
> > > 
> > > 	struct foo {
> > > 		int a;
> > > 		int b;
> > > 	} f = {
> > > 		.a = 1,
> > > 	};
> > > 
> > > will initialise b to zero.  But I doubt if much code at all assumes
> > > that this initialisation patterm will reliably zero out *holes* in the
> > > struct.
> > > 
> > 
> > We did such assertions in the past, we were wrong.

Well, that sucks...  I know I wrote some code that relied on holes
getting zeroed as well.  Is there no option to GCC to make this work?

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-23  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-10 20:38 [PATCH] fs: select: fix information leak to userspace Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-11-12 20:08 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-13 21:38   ` Andreas Dilger
2010-11-14  9:25     ` [PATCH v2] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-11-15  2:06       ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-15 19:12         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-16 11:19           ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-22 23:50             ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-23  0:20               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-23  0:32                 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-23  5:12                   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-11-23  6:59                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-23 14:01           ` Américo Wang
2010-11-23 14:45             ` walter harms
2010-11-23 15:23               ` Américo Wang
2010-11-23 18:02               ` Andreas Dilger
2010-11-23 20:18                 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-23 20:22                   ` David Miller
2010-11-24  0:24                   ` Andreas Dilger
2010-11-24 16:06                   ` walter harms
2010-11-24 10:44                 ` Pádraig Brady
2010-11-24 11:05                   ` Américo Wang
2010-11-24 11:46                     ` Pádraig Brady
2010-11-24 12:32                       ` Américo Wang
2010-12-15  9:49                       ` Al Viro
2010-12-15 20:30                         ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-15 20:33                           ` Julia Lawall
2010-12-15 20:52                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-15 22:19                               ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-16  9:39                                 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-24 17:54               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-11-16 18:45         ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-11-15  2:05     ` [PATCH] " Andrew Morton

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