Re: CVE-2014-9900 fix is not upstream

On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 09:40 -0700, David Miller wrote:

From: Luis Henriques <redacted>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:41:07 +0100

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Digging through some old CVEs I came across this one that doesn't

seem be

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in mainline.  Was there a good reason for not being sent upstream? 

Maybe it was

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rejected for some reason and I failed to find the discussion.

Because the patch is completely bogus, and thus so is the CVE.

The variable initializer clears out the entire structure.

Until you can show compiler output from gcc that shows it not
initializing the structure I will not apply this patch because I know
that it faithfully does.

On some versions and architectures.  Can you guarantee that you will
notice when an exception appears?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.