[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] return only valid data in ibox_info and mbox_info

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> When there is no data available in the outbound SPU mailboxes,
> reading the respective info files leaks kernel stack data instead
> of returning the mailbox contents. This changes the behavior of
> spufs to return no data at all in that case, which is what the only
> user (gdb) expects anyway.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is correct with regard to the SPU core dump
> support, which uses the same code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann at de.ibm.com>
> 

Jeremy,

I went through all the old patches this week and noticed you never
picked this one up. Do you wish to queue it for 2.6.25?

	Arnd <><