Re: [PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf.c: allocate initialized memory in fill_thread_core_info()

Alexander Potapenko
2020-04-21T08:06:33Z

> Ewww. That's been there for 12 years. Did something change in
> regset_size() or regset->get()? Do you know what leaves the hole?

I don't think anything changed on the kernel side recently.
But I've made some changes to DMA handling recently, which made uninit
writes to the disk discoverable.
We don't use core dumping on syzbot (because the auto-generated
programs crash all the time), so it could be a very old bug that was
triggered in a non-standard setup.