Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752875Ab3FDKj3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 06:39:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:11190 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751210Ab3FDKj1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 06:39:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 16:09:10 +0530 (IST) From: P J P X-X-Sender: pjp@javelin.pnq.redhat.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: Dan Carpenter , Petr Matousek Subject: Re: [patch] cciss: info leak in cciss_ioctl32_passthru() Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 916 Lines: 30 Hello Dan, === diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c index 6374dc1..34971aa 100644 --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c @@ -1201,6 +1201,7 @@ static int cciss_ioctl32_passthru(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int err; u32 cp; + memset(&arg64, 0, sizeof(arg64)); ... === This exact same patch was included back in 2010 by Mr Vasiliy Kulikov. -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/7ab5118d7c2be650bc936894f159dc1c597badae But there is no entry/log of its reversal. Any idea why was it removed? Thank you. -- Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Security Response Team DB7A 84C5 D3F9 7CD1 B5EB C939 D048 7860 3655 602B -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/