Plug kevent memory disclosure leaks.
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Authored by markj on Nov 23 2018, 9:58 PM.

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rS340899: Plug some kernel memory disclosures via kevent(2).

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There are some places in the kernel where we register for events on
behalf of a userspace process. When the event triggers, the process
will get a full copy of the event structure.

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markj created this revision.Nov 23 2018, 9:58 PM

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B21182: Diff 51023.Nov 23 2018, 9:58 PM

markj added a reviewer: kib.Nov 23 2018, 10:01 PM

kib added inline comments.Nov 23 2018, 10:26 PM

sys/kern/kern_event.c
577 ↗	(On Diff #51023)	Isn't it enough to memset() once before the SLIST_FOREACH() loop ?

Lift memset() out of the knote_fork() loop.

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B21184: Diff 51025.Nov 23 2018, 10:30 PM

kib accepted this revision.Nov 23 2018, 10:48 PM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Nov 23 2018, 10:48 PM

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