Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:56:57 +0200 | From | walter harms <> | Subject | Re: [patch] gru: info leak in gru_get_config_info() |
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Am 21.04.2013 13:10, schrieb Dan Carpenter: > The "info.fill" array isn't initialized so it can leak uninitialized > stack information to user space. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> > > diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c > index 44d273c..ed5fc43 100644 > --- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c > +++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c > @@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ static long gru_get_config_info(unsigned long arg) > info.nodes = num_online_nodes(); > info.blades = info.nodes / nodesperblade; > info.chiplets = GRU_CHIPLETS_PER_BLADE * info.blades; > + memset(&info.fill, 0, sizeof(info.fill)); >
the other way around (clear first all bytes) looks more easy in case someone will add more elements to the struct.
memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info)); info.nodes = num_online_nodes(); info.blades = info.nodes / nodesperblade; ....
re, wh
> if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &info, sizeof(info))) > return -EFAULT; > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
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