Vulnerability CVE-2024-41079
Published: 2024-07-29

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nvmet: always initialize cqe.result

The spec doesn't mandate that the first two double words (aka results)
for the command queue entry need to be set to 0 when they are not
used (not specified). Though, the target implemention returns 0 for TCP
and FC but not for RDMA.

Let's make RDMA behave the same and thus explicitly initializing the
result field. This prevents leaking any data from the stack.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30d35b24b7957922f81cfdaa66f2e1b1e9b9aed2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10967873b80742261527a071954be8b54f0f8e4d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0990e8a863645496b9e3f91cfcfd63cd95c80319
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd0c1b8e045a8d2785342b385cb2684d9b48e426
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