On 7 Jul 2011 at 10:33, Mathias Krause wrote:

> In gf128mul_lle() and gf128mul_bbe() r isn't completely initialized with
> zero because the size argument passed to memset() is the size of the
> pointer, not the structure it points to.
> 
> Luckily there are no in-kernel users of those functions so the ABI
> change implied by this fix should break no existing code.
> 
> Based on a patch by the PaX Team.

just for the record, the bug was pointed out by a recent clang analysis pass.

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