On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:12:46PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > 2.6.35-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me > know. > > ------------------ > From: Dan Rosenberg <[email protected]> > > commit c4d0c3b097f7584772316ee4d64a09fe0e4ddfca upstream. > > The FSGEOMETRY_V1 ioctl (and its compat equivalent) calls out to > xfs_fs_geometry() with a version number of 3. This code path does not > fill in the logsunit member of the passed xfs_fsop_geom_t, leading to > the leaking of four bytes of uninitialized stack data to potentially > unprivileged callers. > > v2 switches to memset() to avoid future issues if structure members > change, on suggestion of Dave Chinner.
Did you grab the followup patch that fixed the stack corruption this change caused? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner [email protected] _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
