DF-2314 leak sample: bytes captured as the device description (dev->desc, returned by device_get_desc) from the REAL device_set_desc_copy() after the len-0 ANSI tag walked buf[] backwards over groomed kernel-stack residue. The crafted card stream contains ONLY these bytes: 17 78 56 34 12 00 00 00 82 00 00 79 (logical dev 0x12345678, ANSI tag len 0) NO "DF2314" bytes, NO 0x20 runs - everything below came from the kernel stack. --- baseline run 1 (probe11: ANSI tag before LD; desc applied at pnp.c:449) --- desc len=18 ascii: " DF2314" hex : 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 44 46 32 33 31 34 (12 x 0x20 stack-residue bytes + 6-byte groom marker "DF2314" that exists nowhere in the stream; terminated by a 0x00 residue byte at buf[18]) --- baseline run 2 (probe17: walk + second LD tag, child[3]) --- desc=< DF2314> len=18 (identical) --- baseline run 3 (re-run of probe11, separate scenario invocation) --- desc=< DF2314> len=18 (identical; deterministic under fixed groom) --- stack window around buf (walk run, scenario 10; buf at pad+8044) --- walk: buf[0..11]=0x20 residue, buf[12..17]="DF2314", buf[18]=0x00, NUL write landed at buf[-12] (pad+8032): groom byte 0x20 -> 0x00 ctrl: buf[0]=0x00 (code-written), buf[1..]=0x12 untouched groom --- fixed kernel (large_len>0 guard) --- probe11 desc len=0 ascii="" ; smart walk: no NUL signature -> NO stack bytes reach the description anymore. Interpretation: at real boot, the 100 bytes at buf[] are residues of earlier boot-path kernel stack usage (frame pointers, kernel text/data pointers, lengths) - device_set_desc_copy(strlen+strcpy) copies them into dev->desc and device_print_child() prints them to the world-readable dmesg buffer.