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* [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp
@ 2013-07-24  3:42 Ben Hutchings
  2013-07-24 13:16 ` [stable] " Luis Henriques
  2013-07-24 14:20 ` Andi Kleen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ben Hutchings @ 2013-07-24  3:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andi Kleen, Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi, James Bottomley; +Cc: stable, linux-scsi

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This looks like a candidate for stable:

commit 16da05b1158d1bcb31656e636a8736a663b1cf1f
Author: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 3 20:50:30 2012 +0200

    [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp

Typically this sort of bug can result in leaking kernel memory to
userland, which is a security issue, but I don't know whether that's
true in this case.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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* Re: [stable] [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp
  2013-07-24  3:42 [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp Ben Hutchings
@ 2013-07-24 13:16 ` Luis Henriques
  2013-07-24 14:20 ` Andi Kleen
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Luis Henriques @ 2013-07-24 13:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ben Hutchings
  Cc: Andi Kleen, Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi, James Bottomley, stable,
	linux-scsi

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Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:

> This looks like a candidate for stable:
>
> commit 16da05b1158d1bcb31656e636a8736a663b1cf1f
> Author: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
> Date:   Mon Sep 3 20:50:30 2012 +0200
>
>     [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp
>
> Typically this sort of bug can result in leaking kernel memory to
> userland, which is a security issue, but I don't know whether that's
> true in this case.
>
> Ben.
Thanks, I'm queuing it for the 3.5 kernel.

Cheers,
-- 
Luis

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* Re: [stable] [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp
  2013-07-24  3:42 [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp Ben Hutchings
  2013-07-24 13:16 ` [stable] " Luis Henriques
@ 2013-07-24 14:20 ` Andi Kleen
  2013-07-27 14:48   ` Ben Hutchings
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andi Kleen @ 2013-07-24 14:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ben Hutchings
  Cc: Andi Kleen, Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi, James Bottomley, stable,
	linux-scsi

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 04:42:42AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> This looks like a candidate for stable:

Don't know if it's a security issue, but should be fine for stable.

-Andi

> 
> commit 16da05b1158d1bcb31656e636a8736a663b1cf1f
> Author: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
> Date:   Mon Sep 3 20:50:30 2012 +0200
> 
>     [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp
> 
> Typically this sort of bug can result in leaking kernel memory to
> userland, which is a security issue, but I don't know whether that's
> true in this case.
> 
> Ben.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hutchings
> Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.



-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

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* Re: [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp
  2013-07-24 14:20 ` Andi Kleen
@ 2013-07-27 14:48   ` Ben Hutchings
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ben Hutchings @ 2013-07-27 14:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andi Kleen; +Cc: Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi, James Bottomley, stable, linux-scsi

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On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 16:20 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 04:42:42AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > This looks like a candidate for stable:
> 
> Don't know if it's a security issue, but should be fine for stable.

OK, I've queued it up for 3.2.

Ben.

> > commit 16da05b1158d1bcb31656e636a8736a663b1cf1f
> > Author: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
> > Date:   Mon Sep 3 20:50:30 2012 +0200
> > 
> >     [SCSI] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp
> > 
> > Typically this sort of bug can result in leaking kernel memory to
> > userland, which is a security issue, but I don't know whether that's
> > true in this case.
> > 
> > Ben.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ben Hutchings
> > Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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