Re: [PATCH v2] fs: select: fix information leak to userspace

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Nov 23 2010 - 01:59:45 EST


Le mardi 23 novembre 2010 Ã 08:12 +0300, Dan Carpenter a Ãcrit :

> Well, that sucks... I know I wrote some code that relied on holes
> getting zeroed as well. Is there no option to GCC to make this work?
>

Apparently not.

At least, commits 0f04cfd098fb81fded74e78ea1a1b86cc6c6c31e and
1c40be12f7d8ca1d387510d39787b12e512a7ce8 were safe, as structures that
were touched dont have holes.



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