From: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Huewe <huewe.external.infineon@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] TPM driver robustness fixes
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:26:03 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D81713B.2060001@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D81708D.5090607@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 03/16/2011 11:23 PM, Rajiv Andrade wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>
> The following changes since commit
> 2e270d84223262a38d4755c61d55f5c73ea89e56:
>
> Merge branch 'for-linus' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 (2011-03-16
> 13:26:17 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://tpmdd.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/tpmdd/tpmdd/ for-james
>
> Peter Huewe (3):
>
> This patch changes the call of tpm_transmit by supplying the
> size of the userspace buffer instead of TPM_BUFSIZE
>
> This patch fixes information leakage to the userspace by
> initializing the data buffer to zero
>
> Since the buffer might contain security related data it might be
> a good idea to zero the buffer after we have copied it to userspace.
Given the nature of these changes, they should go to current linus as
bug fixes.
Thanks,
Rajiv
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-17 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-17 2:23 [GIT PULL] TPM driver robustness fixes Rajiv Andrade
2011-03-17 2:26 ` Rajiv Andrade [this message]
2011-03-21 23:01 ` James Morris
[not found] ` <AANLkTimS1ss=977x3d-7Wcpj0wGthzW3_G+wqF1wQMc3@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-22 12:58 ` Peter Huewe
2011-03-22 13:16 ` Rajiv Andrade
2011-03-22 16:08 ` Peter Huewe
2011-03-28 16:06 ` Rajiv Andrade
2011-04-14 21:35 ` Jeff Mahoney
2011-07-19 6:01 ` Eugene Teo
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