PATCH: fix 2 byte data leak due to padding

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 27 2003 - 15:19:01 EST


diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux-2.6.0-test2/fs/stat.c linux-2.6.0-test2-ac1/fs/stat.c
--- linux-2.6.0-test2/fs/stat.c 2003-07-14 14:11:56.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.0-test2-ac1/fs/stat.c 2003-07-23 16:27:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
 {
         static int warncount = 5;
         struct __old_kernel_stat tmp;
-
+
         if (warncount > 0) {
                 warncount--;
                 printk(KERN_WARNING "VFS: Warning: %s using old stat() call. Recompile your binary.\n",
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@
                 warncount = 0;
         }
 
+ memset(&tmp, 0, sizeof(struct __old_kernel_stat));
         tmp.st_dev = stat->dev;
         tmp.st_ino = stat->ino;
         tmp.st_mode = stat->mode;

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