From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, elic@nvidia.com,
guanjun@linux.alibaba.com, parav@nvidia.com,
gautam.dawar@xilinx.com, xieyongji@bytedance.com,
jasowang@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vduse: prevent uninitialized memory accesses
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 09:54:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220827065435.GL2030@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220826161605.559317-1-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 06:16:05PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> If the VDUSE application provides a smaller config space
> than the driver expects, the driver may use uninitialized
> memory from the stack.
>
> This patch prevents it by initializing the buffer passed by
> the driver to store the config value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
This sounds like it needs a Fixes tag?
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-27 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-26 16:16 [PATCH] vduse: prevent uninitialized memory accesses Maxime Coquelin
2022-08-27 6:54 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2022-08-29 7:23 ` Maxime Coquelin
2022-08-29 0:44 ` Jason Wang
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