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Re: [PATCH] fix infoleak in wireless

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A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post
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http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 05:41:46PM -0400, Kangjie Lu wrote:
> You are right. But wouldn't it be more general/better if we initialize the
> allocation at very beginning?
> To avoid information leaks, I think we are supposed to initialize all
> allocations properly if 
> we are not sure how they are used.

But the networking maintainers told you to fix the broken drivers
instead.  So please do that and send those patches to the correct
developers and mailing lists.

The fact that only 2 staging drivers got this wrong means that everyone
knows how to use this api properly, so I agree with the maintainers
here.

thanks,


greg k-h

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[PATCH] fix infoleak in wireless Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 22:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] fix infoleak in wireless Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-05-03 22:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] fix infoleak in wireless Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-05-03 23:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] fix infoleak in wireless Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-05-03 23:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] fix infoleak in wireless Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-05-03 23:50 +0200

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