This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
DECnet: don't leak uninitialized stack byte
to the 2.6.36-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
decnet-don-t-leak-uninitialized-stack-byte.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.36 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 3c6f27bf33052ea6ba9d82369fb460726fb779c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Rosenberg <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:02:13 +0000
Subject: DECnet: don't leak uninitialized stack byte
From: Dan Rosenberg <[email protected]>
commit 3c6f27bf33052ea6ba9d82369fb460726fb779c0 upstream.
A single uninitialized padding byte is leaked to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/decnet/af_decnet.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
+++ b/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
@@ -1556,6 +1556,8 @@ static int __dn_getsockopt(struct socket
if (r_len > sizeof(struct linkinfo_dn))
r_len = sizeof(struct linkinfo_dn);
+ memset(&link, 0, sizeof(link));
+
switch(sock->state) {
case SS_CONNECTING:
link.idn_linkstate = LL_CONNECTING;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-2.6.36/block-limit-vec-count-in-bio_kmalloc-and-bio_alloc_map_data.patch
queue-2.6.36/bio-take-care-not-overflow-page-count-when-mapping-copying-user-data.patch
queue-2.6.36/block-check-for-proper-length-of-iov-entries-in-blk_rq_map_user_iov.patch
queue-2.6.36/ipc-initialize-structure-memory-to-zero-for-compat-functions.patch
queue-2.6.36/decnet-don-t-leak-uninitialized-stack-byte.patch
queue-2.6.36/block-take-care-not-to-overflow-when-calculating-total-iov-length.patch
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