From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:60526 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967343AbcA1Kwv (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2016 05:52:51 -0500 From: Jiri Slaby To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Richard Purdie , Jiri Kosina , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Darren Hart , Jiri Kosina , Jiri Slaby Subject: [patch added to 3.12-stable] HID: core: Avoid uninitialized buffer access Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:52:21 +0100 Message-Id: <1453978346-20237-30-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <1453978346-20237-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> References: <1453978346-20237-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Richard Purdie This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 79b568b9d0c7c5d81932f4486d50b38efdd6da6d upstream. hid_connect adds various strings to the buffer but they're all conditional. You can find circumstances where nothing would be written to it but the kernel will still print the supposedly empty buffer with printk. This leads to corruption on the console/in the logs. Ensure buf is initialized to an empty string. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie [dvhart: Initialize string to "" rather than assign buf[0] = NULL;] Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Darren Hart Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c index 85b0da8c33f4..7ca1b4a97a14 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c @@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int connect_mask) "Multi-Axis Controller" }; const char *type, *bus; - char buf[64]; + char buf[64] = ""; unsigned int i; int len; int ret; -- 2.7.0