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Subject[PATCH] fix info leak
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Here's a better fix for the kernel stack data
leaking out into user-space. (due to padding)
This fix takes advantage of the fact that an i386
machine is little-endian. The type of st_rdev may
be widened to fill the gap, causing the extra 2
bytes to get zeroed when st_rdev is written to.

Everybody: use -Wpadded to find these

--- old/include/asm-i386/stat.h 2003-06-26 17:50:47.000000000 -0400
+++ new/include/asm-i386/stat.h 2003-07-17 18:23:01.000000000 -0400
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@
unsigned short st_uid;
unsigned short st_gid;
- unsigned short st_rdev;
+ unsigned int st_rdev;
unsigned long st_size;
unsigned long st_atime;
unsigned long st_mtime;


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