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From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>
To: Lv Ruyi <cgel.zte@gmail.com>
Cc: chi.minghao@zte.com.cn, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	zealci@zte.com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/nfc/nci: use memset avoid infoleaks
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 11:24:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7fea223-b958-deea-70b2-a649e3cc0ec4@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220301093424.2053471-1-lv.ruyi@zte.com.cn>

On 01/03/2022 10:34, Lv Ruyi wrote:
> hello sir
> 
> I think this way: On 64-bit systems, struct nci_set_config_param has 
> an added padding of 7 bytes between struct members id and len. Even 
> though all struct members are initialized, the 7-byte hole will 
> contain data from the kernel stack. 
> 

That's reasonable. This explanation should be mentioned in the commit
msg. Also just initialize the array to 0, instead of separate memset call.


Best regards,
Krzysztof

      reply	other threads:[~2022-03-01 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-01  8:17 cgel.zte
2022-03-01  8:20 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-03-01  8:33   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-03-01  9:34   ` Lv Ruyi
2022-03-01 10:24     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski [this message]

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