From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753657AbcHWPxo (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:53:44 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:1157 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750927AbcHWPxm (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:53:42 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.28,566,1464678000"; d="scan'208";a="752508083" Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 21:31:00 +0530 From: Vinod Koul To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Luis Henriques , Krishnankutty Kolathappilly , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ALSA: compress: Memset timestamp structure to zero. Message-ID: <20160823160100.GZ2890@localhost> References: <1471959637-18163-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> <1471959637-18163-2-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > > 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 > > 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