[PATCH 4/8] char: pcmcia: synclink_cs: fix information leak to userland

From: Vasiliy Kulikov
Date: Sun Oct 17 2010 - 10:41:41 EST


Structure new_line is copied to userland with some padding fields unitialized.
It leads to leaking of stack memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Compile tested.

drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c b/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c
index db9efbe..bfc10f8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c
@@ -4091,6 +4091,8 @@ 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, size);
+
switch(ifr->ifr_settings.type) {
case IF_GET_IFACE: /* return current sync_serial_settings */

--
1.7.0.4

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