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* [PATCH] rds: fix a leak of kernel memory
@ 2010-08-16 13:25 Eric Dumazet
  2010-08-19  6:40 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric Dumazet @ 2010-08-16 13:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: Andy Grover, netdev

struct rds_rdma_notify contains a 32 bits hole on 64bit arches,
make sure it is zeroed before copying it to user.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
---
 net/rds/recv.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/recv.c b/net/rds/recv.c
index 795a00b..c93588c 100644
--- a/net/rds/recv.c
+++ b/net/rds/recv.c
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ static int rds_still_queued(struct rds_sock *rs, struct rds_incoming *inc,
 int rds_notify_queue_get(struct rds_sock *rs, struct msghdr *msghdr)
 {
 	struct rds_notifier *notifier;
-	struct rds_rdma_notify cmsg;
+	struct rds_rdma_notify cmsg = { 0 }; /* fill holes with zero */
 	unsigned int count = 0, max_messages = ~0U;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	LIST_HEAD(copy);



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* Re: [PATCH] rds: fix a leak of kernel memory
  2010-08-16 13:25 [PATCH] rds: fix a leak of kernel memory Eric Dumazet
@ 2010-08-19  6:40 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2010-08-19  6:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: eric.dumazet; +Cc: andy.grover, netdev

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:25:00 +0200

> struct rds_rdma_notify contains a 32 bits hole on 64bit arches,
> make sure it is zeroed before copying it to user.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks a lot Eric.

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