From ed77ed6112f2d4b650f4be7dbaf14e06e1d393a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasiliy Kulikov Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:34:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] drivers/char/synclink_gt.c: fix information leak to userland Structures tmp_params and new_line are copied to userland with some padding fields unitialized. It leads to leaking of stack memory. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov Acked-by: Paul Fulghum Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/synclink_gt.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c b/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c index 1199978..9f7fc714 100644 --- a/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c +++ b/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c @@ -1132,6 +1132,7 @@ static long get_params32(struct slgt_info *info, struct MGSL_PARAMS32 __user *us struct MGSL_PARAMS32 tmp_params; DBGINFO(("%s get_params32\n", info->device_name)); + memset(&tmp_params, 0, sizeof(tmp_params)); tmp_params.mode = (compat_ulong_t)info->params.mode; tmp_params.loopback = info->params.loopback; tmp_params.flags = info->params.flags; @@ -1617,6 +1618,8 @@ static int hdlcdev_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd) if (cmd != SIOCWANDEV) return hdlc_ioctl(dev, ifr, cmd); + memset(&new_line, 0, sizeof(new_line)); + switch(ifr->ifr_settings.type) { case IF_GET_IFACE: /* return current sync_serial_settings */ -- 2.7.4