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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:19:01 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: PATCH: fix 2 byte data leak due to padding
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diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux-2.6.0-test2/fs/stat.c linux-2.6.0-test2-ac1/fs/stat.c
--- linux-2.6.0-test2/fs/stat.c	2003-07-14 14:11:56.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.0-test2-ac1/fs/stat.c	2003-07-23 16:27:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
 {
 	static int warncount = 5;
 	struct __old_kernel_stat tmp;
-
+	
 	if (warncount > 0) {
 		warncount--;
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "VFS: Warning: %s using old stat() call. Recompile your binary.\n",
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@
 		warncount = 0;
 	}
 
+	memset(&tmp, 0, sizeof(struct __old_kernel_stat));
 	tmp.st_dev = stat->dev;
 	tmp.st_ino = stat->ino;
 	tmp.st_mode = stat->mode;