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authorVasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>2010-10-27 15:34:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-27 18:03:14 -0700
commited77ed6112f2d4b650f4be7dbaf14e06e1d393a5 (patch)
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parentb9b1134260e036fb75c468514569864dd6722f3e (diff)
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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 <segooon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/synclink_gt.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c b/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c
index 11999784383e..9f7fc71474b4 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 */