From ddf225728f301b18c45661b636bfd53c58ad1ff4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Heeren <sgheeren@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 02:53:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] erase_filesystem_signatures writes uninitialized data

tagged FIXME
---
 src/GParted_Core.cc | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/GParted_Core.cc b/src/GParted_Core.cc
index c34aa252..36e6bc53 100644
--- a/src/GParted_Core.cc
+++ b/src/GParted_Core.cc
@@ -2910,6 +2910,7 @@ bool GParted_Core::erase_filesystem_signatures( const Partition & partition )
 			if ( ped_device_open( lp_device ) )
 			{
 				//reiser4 stores "ReIsEr4" at sector 128 with a sector size of 512 bytes
+				// FIXME writing block of partially uninitialized bytes (security/privacy)
 				return_value = ped_geometry_write( & lp_partition ->geom, "0000000", (65536 / lp_device ->sector_size), 1 ) ;
 
 				ped_device_close( lp_device ) ;