From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@xxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit e4ec8cc8039a7063e24204299b462bd1383184a5 upstream. The stack object “r1” has a total size of 32 bytes. Its field “event” and “val” both contain 4 bytes padding. These 8 bytes padding bytes are sent to user without being initialized. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- sound/core/timer.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c index aa0582c5dd2e..1902ec0d4487 100644 --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -1253,6 +1253,7 @@ static void snd_timer_user_tinterrupt(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri, } if ((tu->filter & (1 << SNDRV_TIMER_EVENT_RESOLUTION)) && tu->last_resolution != resolution) { + memset(&r1, 0, sizeof(r1)); r1.event = SNDRV_TIMER_EVENT_RESOLUTION; r1.tstamp = tstamp; r1.val = resolution; -- 2.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html