Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix brace coding style issues reported by checkpatch

2014-10-29 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Scott Lovenberg > wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Sudip Mukherjee >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:31 AM, nick wrote: >>> > Greg,

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix brace coding style issues reported by checkpatch

2014-10-28 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:31 AM, nick wrote: > > Greg, > > That's fine, I was wondering how long Greg KH takes to get around to > > picking this up as he is very busy with > > other kernel work. > > it might take a long long time. i th

Re: Patch submission issue

2014-06-11 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 07:23:08AM +0530, Raghavendra wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am new to the kernel development community and I started off by fixing >> small coding style errors in the drivers/staging directory. I've created >> a patch for the sa

Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: clean out braces / old code (found via checkpatch)

2012-10-03 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Matthew Walster wrote: > > > On 2 October 2012 17:16, Scott Lovenberg wrote: >> >> Looks good to me. > > > Maintainer didn't think so :( > > On 2 October 2012 19:46, David Miller wrote: >> >> That comment and t

Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: clean out braces / old code (found via checkpatch)

2012-10-02 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:56 AM, wrote: > From: Matthew Walster > > Remove an old commented out piece of code. > Remove an if(true) statement. > Remove a set of braces that weren't strictly necessary. > > All found by running checkpatch.pl against the code. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Walster > -

Re: starting to patch kernel

2012-09-26 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: > Hi > > I am experienced embedded Linux driver developer. I have some spare > time which I want to contribute to mainstream Linux kernel. > Unfortunately http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo is very old. > Can you please sugge

Re: Does Linux process exist information leakage?

2012-01-19 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 18:45, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 01:19:22PM -0500, Scott Lovenberg wrote: > > Let me walk you guys through how this bug could be exploited. > > The file that you want to access is blocked from you by file system > > permis

Re: Does Linux process exist information leakage?

2012-01-19 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 20:53, Fredrick wrote: > When you malloc a memory or mmap a MAP_ANON memory, it is virtually > allocated. When you read or write to it, the process takes a page fault. > The page fault handler zeroes those memory and hands it to the process. > So I think there is no leak.

Re: Does Linux process exist information leakage?

2012-01-16 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 13:45, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Jonathan Neuschäfer > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:52:33PM -0500, Scott Lovenberg wrote: > >> Real world example in C; I fixed a security bug in Samba that dealt with &g

Re: Does Linux process exist information leakage?

2012-01-16 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:00, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:52:33PM -0500, Scott Lovenberg wrote: > > Real world example in C; I fixed a security bug in Samba that dealt with > > this exact problem. Credential files were read to memory as the root >

Re: Does Linux process exist information leakage?

2012-01-11 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:45, Dave Hylands wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:53 AM, 夏业添 wrote: > > Hi, > >My tutor asked me to test whether one process leaves information in > > memory after it is dead. I tried to search some article about such thing > on > > the Internet but there