Fix potential infoleak in older kernels
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 8 Nov 2016 10:17:00 +0000 (11:17 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:36:34 +0000 (16:36 +0100)
commitdc1555e670c373bfa4ca2e1e2f839d5fe2b4501a
treeed2ad8374f4eb037491bcd180ebfb16aeb22cc60
parentbd5cc3294de37fc07f76ee6beed89101d4b4b0ee
Fix potential infoleak in older kernels

Not upstream as it is not needed there.

So a patch something like this might be a safe way to fix the
potential infoleak in older kernels.

THIS IS UNTESTED. It's a very obvious patch, though, so if it compiles
it probably works. It just initializes the output variable with 0 in
the inline asm description, instead of doing it in the exception
handler.

It will generate slightly worse code (a few unnecessary ALU
operations), but it doesn't have any interactions with the exception
handler implementation.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h