From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932216Ab0IXQ6N (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:58:13 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:46104 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932570Ab0IXQ2J (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:28:09 -0400 X-Mailbox-Line: From gregkh@clark.site Fri Sep 24 09:26:16 2010 Message-Id: <20100924162616.652266719@clark.site> User-Agent: quilt/0.48-11.2 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:24:08 -0700 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Dan Rosenberg , "David S. Miller" Subject: [20/80] drivers/net/eql.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory In-Reply-To: <20100924162706.GA7381@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2.6.35-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Dan Rosenberg commit 44467187dc22fdd33a1a06ea0ba86ce20be3fe3c upstream. Fixed formatting (tabs and line breaks). The EQL_GETMASTRCFG device ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 16 bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the "master_name" member of the master_config_t struct declared on the stack in eql_g_master_cfg() is not altered or zeroed before being copied back to the user. This patch takes care of it. Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/eql.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/eql.c +++ b/drivers/net/eql.c @@ -555,6 +555,8 @@ static int eql_g_master_cfg(struct net_d equalizer_t *eql; master_config_t mc; + memset(&mc, 0, sizeof(master_config_t)); + if (eql_is_master(dev)) { eql = netdev_priv(dev); mc.max_slaves = eql->max_slaves;