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Re: [PATCH] [BZ 17542] sunrpc: conditional jump depends on uninitialised value in svc_getreq_common

From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Cc: Brad Hubbard <bhubbard at redhat dot com>, OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:04:53 +0530
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [BZ 17542] sunrpc: conditional jump depends on uninitialised value in svc_getreq_common
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On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 10:29:31AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > Andreas, is this OK or are you still not convinced about adding this
> > patch in?
> 
> How about fixing the real bug?

Carlos has posted a fix for nfs-utils[1].  The intent of including
this patch is not to work around that specific bug, but to make the
code robust against such bugs in future.

Siddhesh

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/69437

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