Re: [git pull] coredump infoleak fix

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu May 28 2020 - 15:06:05 EST


On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 11:34:38AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:03 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering, shouldn't we also zero-initialize the dump data to
> > begin with? See the patch below (untested).
>
> I actually got this patch from Andrew today independently due to a
> KMSAN report. Which I'm applying.

It doesn't fix all problems, though - you don't get an infoleak, but
you do get incorrect data...