Patch "[media] media/vivid-osd: fix info leak in ioctl" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    [media] media/vivid-osd: fix info leak in ioctl

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     media-vivid-osd-fix-info-leak-in-ioctl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From eda98796aff0d9bf41094b06811f5def3b4c333c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Salva=20Peir=C3=B3?= <speirofr@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 07:09:26 -0300
Subject: [media] media/vivid-osd: fix info leak in ioctl
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Salva=20Peir=C3=B3?= <speirofr@xxxxxxxxx>

commit eda98796aff0d9bf41094b06811f5def3b4c333c upstream.

The vivid_fb_ioctl() code fails to initialize the 16 _reserved bytes of
struct fb_vblank after the ->hcount member. Add an explicit
memset(0) before filling the structure to avoid the info leak.

Signed-off-by: Salva Peiró <speirofr@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-osd.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-osd.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-osd.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ static int vivid_fb_ioctl(struct fb_info
 	case FBIOGET_VBLANK: {
 		struct fb_vblank vblank;
 
+		memset(&vblank, 0, sizeof(vblank));
 		vblank.flags = FB_VBLANK_HAVE_COUNT | FB_VBLANK_HAVE_VCOUNT |
 			FB_VBLANK_HAVE_VSYNC;
 		vblank.count = 0;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from speirofr@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-4.1/media-vivid-osd-fix-info-leak-in-ioctl.patch
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