From: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] cciss: info leak in cciss_ioctl32_passthru()
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 16:09:10 +0530 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1306041602160.7145@erqung.pbz> (raw)
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
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