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Bug#998186: marked as done (linux-base: Issue on func cdev_init.)

Your message dated Tue, 2 Nov 2021 07:49:23 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#998186: linux-base: Issue on func cdev_init.
has caused the Debian Bug report #998186,
regarding linux-base: Issue on func cdev_init.
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Package: linux-base
Version: 4.6
Severity: normal

On file fs/char_dev.c function cdev_init old line is memset(cdev, 0, sizeof
*cdev); and new line can bee memset(cdev, 0, sizeof (struct cdev));
 Allocation issue.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.11
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.7.8+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_DIE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages linux-base depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.71+deb10u1

linux-base recommends no packages.

linux-base suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

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Control: reassign -1 src:linux
Control: tags -1 + upstream

Hi


On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 06:11:58PM +0100, Corcodel Marian wrote:
> Package: linux-base
> Version: 4.6
> Severity: normal
> 
> On file fs/char_dev.c function cdev_init old line is memset(cdev, 0, sizeof
> *cdev); and new line can bee memset(cdev, 0, sizeof (struct cdev));
>  Allocation issue.

Can you please report this directly to upstream. Right contact should
be

Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> (maintainer:FILESYSTEMS (VFS and infrastructure))
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org (open list:FILESYSTEMS (VFS and infrastructure))
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)

Regards,
Salvatore

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