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Revision 9f260e0efa4766e56d0ac14f1aeea6ee5eb8fe83 authored by Dan Rosenberg on 26 December 2010, 06:54:53 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 31 December 2010, 19:13:27 UTC
Since the socket address is just being used as a unique identifier, its
inode number is an alternative that does not leak potentially sensitive
information.

CC-ing stable because MITRE has assigned CVE-2010-4565 to the issue.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: 9f260e0efa4766e56d0ac14f1aeea6ee5eb8fe83 authored by Dan Rosenberg on 26 December 2010, 06:54:53 UTC
CAN: Use inode instead of kernel address for /proc file
Tip revision: 9f260e0
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