Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:51:42 -0800
From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
        Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
        Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory for shminfo
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Hi Vasiliy,

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:16:20PM +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Can you please clarify what fields (padding bytes?) are uninitialized
> here?  I see this struct shminfo definition:
> [snip]
> As I see all five fields are set anyway, no padding bytes here, correct?

You are correct, I was looking at shminfo64. Nevermind!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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