Patch "net: fix infoleak in llc" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

Patch "net: fix infoleak in llc" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net: fix infoleak in llc

to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-fix-infoleak-in-llc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon May 16 11:20:33 PDT 2016
From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:35:05 -0400
Subject: net: fix infoleak in llc
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From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit b8670c09f37bdf2847cc44f36511a53afc6161fd ]

The stack object “info” has a total size of 12 bytes. Its last byte
is padding which is not initialized and leaked via “put_cmsg”.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/llc/af_llc.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/llc/af_llc.c
+++ b/net/llc/af_llc.c
@@ -626,6 +626,7 @@ static void llc_cmsg_rcv(struct msghdr *
 	if (llc->cmsg_flags & LLC_CMSG_PKTINFO) {
 		struct llc_pktinfo info;
 
+		memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
 		info.lpi_ifindex = llc_sk(skb->sk)->dev->ifindex;
 		llc_pdu_decode_dsap(skb, &info.lpi_sap);
 		llc_pdu_decode_da(skb, info.lpi_mac);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kangjielu@gmail.com are

queue-4.5/net-fix-infoleak-in-llc.patch
queue-4.5/net-fix-a-kernel-infoleak-in-x25-module.patch
queue-4.5/net-fix-infoleak-in-rtnetlink.patch