Re: [ 030/143] proc connector: fix info leaks

[Christoph Biedl]

Willy Tarreau wrote...

> Initialize event_data for all possible message types to prevent leaking
> kernel stack contents to userland (up to 20 bytes). Also set the flags
> member of the connector message to 0 to prevent leaking two more stack
> bytes this way.

There are build errors as shown below and I guess that one is the
culprit. Can do detailled checks tonight, I'm a bit in a hurry right
now.

(Using gcc-4.7 as provided by Debian wheezy)

    Christoph

drivers/connector/cn_proc.c:286:9: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before '&' token
drivers/connector/cn_proc.c:286:26: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before numeric constant
drivers/connector/cn_proc.c:286:29: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'sizeof'
drivers/connector/cn_proc.c:287:5: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '->' token
make[5]: *** [drivers/connector/cn_proc.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [drivers/connector] Error 2
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
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