Re: CVE-2011-4325 Linux kernel: nfs: diotest4 from LTP crash client

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On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 08:23:09PM +0100, Petr Matousek wrote:
> nfs_direct_read_schedule()
>  -> data = nfs_readdata_alloc();                      // allocates and nulls readdata

Thank you!

Yes, I see that nfs_readdata_alloc() does:

        struct nfs_read_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_rdata_mempool, SLAB_NOFS);

        if (p) {
                memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));

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