[GIT PULL] viafb security fix

[GIT PULL] viafb security fix

[Florian Tobias Schandinat]

Hi Linus,

please pull a viafb security fix from:

   git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6.git 2.6.36-fixes

It contains a single patch to initialize the memory before it is copied to 
userspace. As this issue could be a security flaw it would be good to have this 
patch in the next release.


Thanks,

Florian Tobias Schandinat


Dan Rosenberg (1):
       drivers/video/via/ioctl.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory

  drivers/video/via/ioctl.c |    2 ++
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Re: [GIT PULL] viafb security fix

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:20:10 +0200
Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> wrote:

> It contains a single patch to initialize the memory before it is copied to 
> userspace. As this issue could be a security flaw it would be good to have this 
> patch in the next release.

This one seems worth directing toward the stable tree as well.

jon

Re: [GIT PULL] viafb security fix

[Florian Tobias Schandinat]

Jonathan Corbet schrieb:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:20:10 +0200
> Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> It contains a single patch to initialize the memory before it is copied to 
>> userspace. As this issue could be a security flaw it would be good to have this 
>> patch in the next release.
> 
> This one seems worth directing toward the stable tree as well.

True, the author did CC stable@kernel.org so I guess it should be okay.
Sorry for not making that clear in the patch itself.


Thanks,

Florian Tobias Schandinat