Re: compat: autofs v5 packet size ambiguity - update

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/22/2012 10:16 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Because that padding word for size is just random data.
> 
> In fact, we probably should clear it. I suspect we leak kernel stack
> contents to autofs. Not that it matters (system daemon with root
> privileges and all that), but it's another case of the whole "packing
> data structures" issue.
> 

Fortunately this is not true -- there is a memset(0) of the entire
packet before the packet is built in kernel space.  Otherwise we'd have
a security hole.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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