Re: [PATCH v3] drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.c: fix union member name inDE4X5_GET_REG ioctl

[David Miller]

From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:05:44 -0400

> Now with descriptive title, as requested.
> 
> This was previously reported as a security issue due to leakage of
> uninitialized stack memory.  Jeff Mahoney pointed out that this is
> incorrect since the copied data is from a union (rather than a struct).
> Therefore, this patch is only under consideration for the sake of
> correctness, and is not security relevant. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tab et al. damaged by your email client.

This is getting tiring for me, I guess it's getting tiring for
you too? :-)
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