Re: [PATCH v2] fs: select: fix information leak to userspace

[Eric Dumazet]

Le mercredi 15 dÃcembre 2010 Ã 21:33 +0100, Julia Lawall a Ãcrit :
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> > On 2010-12-15, at 02:49, Al Viro wrote:
> > > Incorrect.  See 6.2.6.1 in C99; basically, padding bytes have unspecified
> > > contents.  Implementation is allowed to leave them in any state
> > > (including not bothering to copy them when doing struct assignments,
> > > etc.).  See Appendix J (portability issues) as well.
> > > 
> > > The bottom line: if you rely on that, you are relying on non-portable
> > > details of compiler behaviour.  Moreover, the authors are not even
> > > required to document what they are doing or to keep that behaviour
> > > consistent.
> > 
> > I thought my proposed solution was reasonable - add explicit padding fields where there are holes in the structure, which would be unused by the kernel, but since they are defined fields the compiler is obligated to initialize them.
> 
> Is the presence of holes always apparent at the source code level?  Or is 
> it dependent on the compiler or target architecture?

It depends on target architecture.

This means doing a full review to add a named padding only for arches
that need it.



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