Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary padding

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Nov 12 2008 - 12:16:07 EST


Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> It does cause each signal delivery to leak 2 uninitialised
> kernel bytes to the end of retcode[], which seems unnecessary.

Not just unnecessary, it is a huge no-no for security.

NAK on this.

-hpa
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