miaoqing pan <[email protected]> wrote: > When the user sets count to zero the string buffer would remain > completely uninitialized which causes the kernel to parse its > own stack data, potentially leading to an info leak. In addition > to that, the string might be not terminated properly when the > user data does not contain a 0-terminator. > > Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Böhmwalder <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks. ee0a47186e2f ath9k: fix tx99 potential info leak -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9972889/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
