[merged] drivers-misc-sgi-gru-grufilec-fix-info-leak-in-gru_get_config_info.patch removed from -mm tree

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Subject: [merged] drivers-misc-sgi-gru-grufilec-fix-info-leak-in-gru_get_config_info.patch removed from -mm tree
To: dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx,holt@xxxxxxx,sivanich@xxxxxxx,mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:58:00 -0700


The patch titled
     Subject: drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c: fix info leak in gru_get_config_info()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     drivers-misc-sgi-gru-grufilec-fix-info-leak-in-gru_get_config_info.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c: fix info leak in gru_get_config_info()

The "info.fill" array isn't initialized so it can leak uninitialized stack
information to user space.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -puN drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c~drivers-misc-sgi-gru-grufilec-fix-info-leak-in-gru_get_config_info drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c~drivers-misc-sgi-gru-grufilec-fix-info-leak-in-gru_get_config_info
+++ a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ static long gru_get_config_info(unsigned
 		nodesperblade = 2;
 	else
 		nodesperblade = 1;
+	memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
 	info.cpus = num_online_cpus();
 	info.nodes = num_online_nodes();
 	info.blades = info.nodes / nodesperblade;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch
linux-next.patch
fanotify-info-leak-in-copy_event_to_user.patch
configfs-use-capped-length-for-store_attribute.patch
drivers-cdrom-cdromc-use-kzalloc-for-failing-hardware.patch
fs-convert-fs-shrinkers-to-new-scan-count-api-fix-fix.patch
mm-vmallocc-unbreak-__vunmap.patch
errh-is_err-can-accept-__user-pointers.patch
drivers-misc-sgi-gru-grufaultc-fix-a-sanity-test-in-gru_set_context_option.patch
rbtree-remove-unneeded-include.patch
rbtree-remove-unneeded-include-fix.patch
minix-bug-widening-a-binary-not-operation.patch
documentation-codingstyle-allow-multiple-return-statements-per-function.patch
mwave-fix-info-leak-in-mwave_ioctl.patch

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