From: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:35:27 +0100
> On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 09:40 -0700, David Miller wrote: >> From: Luis Henriques <luis.henriq...@canonical.com> >> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:41:07 +0100 >> >> > Digging through some old CVEs I came across this one that doesn't >> seem be >> > in mainline. Was there a good reason for not being sent upstream? >> Maybe it was >> > 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? Again, show me the assembler output exhibiting the lack of initialization, for this specific structure and situation. That's all that I'm asking.
