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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: select: fix information leak to userspace
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Le mardi 23 novembre 2010 à 08:12 +0300, Dan Carpenter a écrit :

> Well, that sucks...  I know I wrote some code that relied on holes
> getting zeroed as well.  Is there no option to GCC to make this work?
> 

Apparently not.

At least, commits 0f04cfd098fb81fded74e78ea1a1b86cc6c6c31e and
1c40be12f7d8ca1d387510d39787b12e512a7ce8 were safe, as structures that
were touched dont have holes.