Re: [git pull] coredump infoleak fix

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu May 28 2020 - 03:05:57 EST


On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:02:55AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Looks good to me.
>
> I'm wondering, shouldn't we also zero-initialize the dump data to
> begin with? See the patch below (untested).

Note that this hides the bug from KASAN, though ;-) And the bug
is not just infoleak - not all components are "all zeroes" in the
init state.