From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory for shminfo
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:51:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116205142.GA13854@outflux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101116201620.GA11278@albatros>
Hi Vasiliy,
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:16:20PM +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Can you please clarify what fields (padding bytes?) are uninitialized
> here? I see this struct shminfo definition:
> [snip]
> As I see all five fields are set anyway, no padding bytes here, correct?
You are correct, I was looking at shminfo64. Nevermind!
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-16 19:58 [PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory for shminfo Kees Cook
2010-11-16 20:08 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-16 20:16 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-11-16 20:51 ` Kees Cook [this message]
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