[patch] Staging: sb105x: info leak in mp_get_count()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon Nov 4 07:01:00 UTC 2013


I've dropped most of the people from the CC list.

On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 08:31:50PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:11:50AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 10:28:02AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:01:43PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > > The icount.reserved[] array isn't initialized so it leaks stack
> > > > information to userspace.
> > > > 
> > > > Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico at ngolde.de>
> > > > Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs at goesec.de>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>
> > > 
> > > Also, you don't quite have the patch format right here; you should have
> > > a --- line after the commit mesage, followed by a diffstat.  Did you use
> > > git format-patch to generate this patch?
> > 
> > I normally don't include the diffstat.  Which tools care about that?
> 
> Human wetware. :)
> 
> It isn't required by any tools.  The --- is, though, to produce
> something applicable by git.

That's really weird.  I've been using the same scripts for years and no
one has complained before.  The patch applies fine with `git am` for me.
I'm using git version 1.7.10.4.

How are you applying patches?  I can update my scripts.

regards,
dan carpenter



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