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fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex() 

get_user_ex(x, ptr) should zero x on failure.  It's not a lot of a leak
(at most we are leaking uninitialized 64bit value off the kernel stack,
and in a fairly constrained situation, at that), but the fix is trivial,
so...

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[ This sat in different branch from the uaccess fixes since mid-August ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Al Viro 2016-09-15 02:35:29 +01:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 4cea877657
commit 1c109fabbd
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@ -433,7 +433,11 @@ do { \
#define __get_user_asm_ex(x, addr, itype, rtype, ltype) \
asm volatile("1: mov"itype" %1,%"rtype"0\n" \
"2:\n" \
_ASM_EXTABLE_EX(1b, 2b) \
".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" \
"3:xor"itype" %"rtype"0,%"rtype"0\n" \
" jmp 2b\n" \
".previous\n" \
_ASM_EXTABLE_EX(1b, 3b) \
: ltype(x) : "m" (__m(addr)))
#define __put_user_nocheck(x, ptr, size) \