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fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()
authorAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:35:29 +0000 (02:35 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:14:28 +0000 (11:14 +0200)
commitd42924ab1ec523c0671f5560d51750996be31d3a
tree14158c9cd32f0101627795b5f109de7080f0b9fc
parent2338cc7a51dfe7e2f8d3fe7911dc7a5f8e4b6c99
fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()

commit 1c109fabbd51863475cd12ac206bdd249aee35af upstream.

get_user_ex(x, ptr) should zero x on failure.  It's not a lot of a leak
(at most we are leaking uninitialized 64bit value off the kernel stack,
and in a fairly constrained situation, at that), but the fix is trivial,
so...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[ This sat in different branch from the uaccess fixes since mid-August ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h