[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 1/2] e1000e: Don't return uninitialized stats

Paul Menzel pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de
Mon Apr 24 08:23:48 UTC 2017


Dear Benjamin,


Thank you for your fix.

On 04/21/17 23:20, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> Some statistics passed to ethtool are garbage because e1000e_get_stats64()
> doesn't write them, for example: tx_heartbeat_errors. This leaks kernel
> memory to userspace and confuses users.

Could you please give specific examples to reproduce the issue? That way 
your fix can also be tested.

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Kind regards,

Paul


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