On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 03:06:42PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 4/3/17 2:42 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 10:34:30AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > >> Fix a memory exposure problems in inumbers where we allocate an array of > >> structures with holes, fail to zero the holes, then blindly copy the > >> kernel memory contents (junk and all) into userspace. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > > > BTW, I intend to send this patch (though not the getbmap patch) for 4.11 > > since kernel memory exposure is usually treated as a security problem. > > I agree with that plan; if this change isn't safe I don't know what > is ... Yes. Please send this for 4.11-rc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
