On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:33:29 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:23:58 -0500
> Russ Anderson <rja@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > --- test.orig/include/linux/kernel.h 2008-04-25
> > 15:22:07.640501421 -0500 +++ test/include/linux/kernel.h
> > 2008-04-25 15:42:02.826266036 -0500 @@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ struct
> > sysinfo { unsigned long totalhigh; /* Total high memory size
> > */ unsigned long freehigh; /* Available high memory
> > size */ unsigned int mem_unit; /* Memory unit size
> > in bytes */
> > + unsigned int badpages; /* Number of bad
> > (PG_memerror) pages */ char
> > _f[20-2*sizeof(long)-sizeof(int)]; /* Padding: libc5 uses
> > this.. */ };
>
> eek. sys_sysinfo() copies this structure out to userspace verbatim.
> Increasing its size by four bytes will cause memory scribbles in
> userspace applications.
not if you also reduce the padding ??
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