From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:38:36 +0000 (+0200) Subject: perf_counter: Zero dead bytes from ftrace raw samples size alignment X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc6~19^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1853db0e02ae4088f102b0d8e59e83dc98f93f03;p=pandora-kernel.git perf_counter: Zero dead bytes from ftrace raw samples size alignment After aligning the ftrace raw samples, there are dead bytes storing random data from the stack. We don't want to leak these to userspace, then zero these out. Before: 0x2de88 [0x50]: event: 9 . . ... raw event: size 80 bytes . 0000: 09 00 00 00 01 00 50 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff ......P........ . 0010: 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 h...h...,...... . 0020: 2c 00 00 00 2b 00 01 02 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 ,...+...h...h.. . 0030: 6b 6f 6e 64 65 6d 61 6e 64 2f 30 00 00 00 00 00 kondemand/0.... . 0040: 68 01 00 00 40 7f 46 81 ff ff ff ff 00 10 1b 7f h...@.F........ ^ ^ ^ ^ Leak After: 0x2d318 [0x50]: event: 9 . . ... raw event: size 80 bytes . 0000: 09 00 00 00 01 00 50 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff ......P........ . 0010: 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 68 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 h...h...h...... . 0020: 2c 00 00 00 2b 00 01 02 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 ,...+...h...h.. . 0030: 6b 6f 6e 64 65 6d 61 6e 64 2f 30 00 00 00 00 00 kondemand/0.... . 0040: 68 01 00 00 a0 80 46 81 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 h.....F........ ^ ^ ^ ^ Fixed Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Mike Galbraith LKML-Reference: <1249915116-5210-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Mike Galbraith --- Reading git-diff-tree failed