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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/AER: Avoid info leak in __print_tlp_header
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:27:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226122730.GC3573@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424940903-9147-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

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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    Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-26 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-24 22:50 [PATCH] PCI/AER: Avoid info leak in __print_tlp_header Rasmus Villemoes
2015-02-25 18:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-25 20:18   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-02-25 21:06     ` Luck, Tony
2015-02-25 22:59     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-26  8:55       ` [PATCH v2] " Rasmus Villemoes
2015-02-26 12:27         ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-03-06 18:33         ` Bjorn Helgaas

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