Re: [PATCH] drm/gma500: dont expose bytes from kernel stack

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Aug 21 2016 - 14:46:08 EST


On Sun, 2016-08-21 at 20:39 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> Components m1, m2, p2, dot, vco of variable clock should be
> initialized to avoid bytes from the kernel stack to be
> exposed.

How was this found? visual code inspection?

And isn't this true for mrst_lvds_find_best_pll as well?

> a@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ static bool mrst_sdvo_find_best_pll(const struct gma_limit_t *limit,
>   u32 target_vco, actual_freq;
>   s32 freq_error, min_error = 100000;
>  
> + memset(clock, 0, sizeof(struct gma_clock_t));
>   memset(best_clock, 0, sizeof(*best_clock));
>  
>   for (clock.m = limit->m.min; clock.m <= limit->m.max; clock.m++) {