Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:55:42 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] [PATCH v2] ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for shmctl |
| |
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 07:18:36PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > The old shm interface will leak a few bytes of stack contents. Explicitly > initialize the structure to zero-fill the untouched fields, using memset > instead of C99-style in case there are ever holes in the structure. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> > ---
If you wish to have a patch included in the stable series, please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt which state that adding a: Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> to the signed-off-by: area will cause it to be automagically included when the patch gets into Linus's tree. Otherwise it just causes a lot of extra work for me to dig around and watch out for it in the future.
thanks,
greg k-h
| |