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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vegr.kernel.org, Chas Williams <3chas3@gmail.com>,
	linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14] atm:idt77252: Fix a kernel address leakage in idt77252
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:56:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190416085630.GA4209@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190416065727.13303-1-huangfq.daxian@gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 02:57:27PM +0800, Fuqian Huang wrote:
> Outputting kernel addresses will reveal the locations of kernel code
> and data. And there is no need to print the address of 
> function idt77252_init in idt77252_init. 
> This case is similar to CVE-2018-7273[1].
> Just remove the print statement.
> 
> [1] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7273
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/atm/idt77252.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>

      reply	other threads:[~2019-04-16  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-16  6:57 [PATCH 4.14] atm:idt77252: Fix a kernel address leakage in idt77252 Fuqian Huang
2019-04-16  8:56 ` Greg KH [this message]

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