Re: [PATCH] crypto, gf128: fix call to memset()

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From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu,  7 Jul 2011 10:33:50 +0200

> In gf128mul_lle() and gf128mul_bbe() r isn't completely initialized with
> zero because the size argument passed to memset() is the size of the
> pointer, not the structure it points to.
> 
> Luckily there are no in-kernel users of those functions so the ABI
> change implied by this fix should break no existing code.
> 
> Based on a patch by the PaX Team.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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