Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14] atm:idt77252: Fix a kernel address leakage in idt77252

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:56:30 +0200

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 02:57:27PM +0800, Fuqian Huang wrote:
> Outputting kernel addresses will reveal the locations of kernel code
> and data. And there is no need to print the address of 
> function idt77252_init in idt77252_init. 
> This case is similar to CVE-2018-7273[1].
> Just remove the print statement.
> 
> [1] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7273
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/atm/idt77252.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

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