Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] strscpy: zero any trailing garbage bytes in the destination
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Oct 07 2015 - 03:31:57 EST
* Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's possible that the destination can be shadowed in userspace
> (as, for example, the perf buffers are now). So we should take
> care not to leak data that could be inspected by userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Please always preserve credits for who found the bug:
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Also, you should credit the kbuild-bot for the cross-arch build breakages that
your other patches address:
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Ingo
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