The patch titled Subject: paride: fix potential information leak in pg_read() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was paride-fix-potential-information-leak-in-pg_read.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: paride: fix potential information leak in pg_read() Smatch has a new check for Rosenberg type information leaks where structs are copied to the user with uninitialized stack data in them. i In this case, the pg_write_hdr struct has a hole in it. struct pg_write_hdr { char magic; /* 0 1 */ char func; /* 1 1 */ /* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */ int dlen; /* 4 4 */ Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/paride/pg.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/block/paride/pg.c~paride-fix-potential-information-leak-in-pg_read drivers/block/paride/pg.c --- a/drivers/block/paride/pg.c~paride-fix-potential-information-leak-in-pg_read +++ a/drivers/block/paride/pg.c @@ -630,6 +630,7 @@ static ssize_t pg_read(struct file *filp if (dev->status & 0x10) return -ETIME; + memset(&hdr, 0, sizeof(hdr)); hdr.magic = PG_MAGIC; hdr.dlen = dev->dlen; copy = 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html