You're right, thanks for double checking that logic! I've just sent an
updated patch to the list.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 5:54 PM Steven Whitehouse <swhit...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> On 26/01/17 08:54, Vlad Tsyrklevich wrote:
> > Hello, I wanted to ping the list and see if this could get a review.
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Vlad Tsyrklevich <v...@tsyrklevich.net> 
> > wrote:
> >> Clear the 'unused' field to avoid leaking memory to userland in
> >> copy_result_to_user().
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Vlad Tsyrklevich <v...@tsyrklevich.net>
> >> ---
> >>   fs/dlm/user.c | 2 ++
> >>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/dlm/user.c b/fs/dlm/user.c
> >> index 1ce908c..0570711 100644
> >> --- a/fs/dlm/user.c
> >> +++ b/fs/dlm/user.c
> >> @@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ static void compat_output(struct dlm_lock_result *res,
> >>          res32->lksb.sb_flags = res->lksb.sb_flags;
> >>          res32->lksb.sb_lkid = res->lksb.sb_lkid;
> >>          res32->lksb.sb_lvbptr = (__u32)(long)res->lksb.sb_lvbptr;
> >> +
> >> +       memset(&res32->unused, 0, sizeof(res32->unused));
> >>   }
> >>   #endif
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.7.0
> >>
> It looks like struct dlm_lksb32 has a hole in it, so it would be safer
> just to zero the whole of the dlm_lock_result32 before it is written to,
> rather than trying to find all the holes individually, even if slightly
> slower (I'm not sure it would be noticeable in reality though)
>
> Steve.
>

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