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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	security@kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: potential information leak in do_fb_ioctl()
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:16:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <734ef2833e4e4e7bded92e9d964bc2415aadf3c4.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191030201201.GA3209@xps-13>

On Wed, 2019-10-30 at 21:12 +0100, Andrea Righi wrote:
> Then memset() + memcpy() is probably the best option,
> since copying all those fields one by one looks quite ugly to me...

A memset of an automatic before a memcpy to the same
automatic is unnecessary.

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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: potential information leak in do_fb_ioctl()
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:16:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <734ef2833e4e4e7bded92e9d964bc2415aadf3c4.camel@perches.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20191031181639.tUzwjIJEuxNSbC7bITZi6LAmppeQStG-OVe-1DFqb3w@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191030201201.GA3209@xps-13>

On Wed, 2019-10-30 at 21:12 +0100, Andrea Righi wrote:
> Then memset() + memcpy() is probably the best option,
> since copying all those fields one by one looks quite ugly to me...

A memset of an automatic before a memcpy to the same
automatic is unnecessary.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-31 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-29 18:23 [PATCH] fbdev: potential information leak in do_fb_ioctl() Dan Carpenter
2019-10-29 18:35 ` Joe Perches
2019-10-29 18:35   ` Joe Perches
2019-10-29 19:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-29 19:02   ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-30  7:43   ` Andrea Righi
2019-10-30  7:43     ` Andrea Righi
2019-10-30 19:26     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-30 19:26       ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-30 20:12       ` Andrea Righi
2019-10-30 20:12         ` Andrea Righi
2019-10-31 18:16         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2019-10-31 18:16           ` Joe Perches
2019-10-31 22:12           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-31 22:12             ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-01-03 13:07   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2020-01-13 11:08     ` [PATCH v2] " Dan Carpenter
2020-01-15 14:31       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2020-01-13 12:49     ` [PATCH] " Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-15 13:09       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2020-01-15 13:16         ` Arnd Bergmann

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