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From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>,
	Krishnankutty Kolathappilly <kkolat@codeaurora.org>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ALSA: compress: Memset timestamp structure to zero.
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 21:31:00 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160823160100.GZ2890@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hwpj761kt.wl-tiwai@suse.de>

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 03:45:38PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:40:37 +0200,
> Luis Henriques wrote:
> > 
> > From: Krishnankutty Kolathappilly <kkolat@codeaurora.org>
> > 
> > snd_compr_tstamp is initialized using aggregate initialization
> > that does not zero out the padded bytes. Initialize timestamp
> > structure to zero using memset to avoid this.
> > 
> > CRs-Fixed: 568717
> > Change-Id: I7a7d188705161f06201f1a1f2945bb6acd633d5d
> > Signed-off-by: Krishnankutty Kolathappilly <kkolat@codeaurora.org>
> 
> Vinod already informed me about this, and we agreed that it doesn't
> make any sense.  What does it really fix?

Btw is there a process to make this CVE invalidated?

-- 
~Vinod

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-23 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-23 13:40 CVE-2014-9892 fix is not upstream Luis Henriques
2016-08-23 13:40 ` ALSA: compress: Memset timestamp structure to zero Luis Henriques
2016-08-23 13:45   ` Takashi Iwai
2016-08-23 16:01     ` Vinod Koul [this message]

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