Re: CVE-2014-9900 fix is not upstream

[David Miller]

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:35:27 +0100

> On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 09:40 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:41:07 +0100
>> 
>> > Digging through some old CVEs I came across this one that doesn't
>> seem be
>> > in mainline.  Was there a good reason for not being sent upstream? 
>> Maybe it was
>> > rejected for some reason and I failed to find the discussion.
>> 
>> Because the patch is completely bogus, and thus so is the CVE.
>> 
>> The variable initializer clears out the entire structure.
>> 
>> Until you can show compiler output from gcc that shows it not
>> initializing the structure I will not apply this patch because I know
>> that it faithfully does.
> 
> On some versions and architectures.  Can you guarantee that you will
> notice when an exception appears?

Again, show me the assembler output exhibiting the lack of
initialization, for this specific structure and situation.

That's all that I'm asking.