Re: net: amend the fix for SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt infoleak

[David Miller]

From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:41:12 +0800

> The fix for CVE-2009-0676 (upstream commit df0bca04) is incomplete. Note
> that the same problem of leaking kernel memory will reappear if someone
> on some architecture uses struct timeval with some internal padding (for
> example tv_sec 64-bit and tv_usec 32-bit) --- then, you are going to
> leak the padded bytes to userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Eugene.
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