[40/71] char/tpm: Fix unitialized usage of data buffer

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Apr 13 2011 - 12:20:45 EST


2.6.33-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Peter Huewe <huewe.external.infineon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b upstream.

This patch fixes information leakage to the userspace by initializing
the data buffer to zero.

Reported-by: Peter Huewe <huewe.external@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <huewe.external@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Selhorst <m.selhorst@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Also removed the silly "* sizeof(u8)". If that isn't 1, we have way
deeper problems than a simple multiplication can fix. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ int tpm_open(struct inode *inode, struct
return -EBUSY;
}

- chip->data_buffer = kmalloc(TPM_BUFSIZE * sizeof(u8), GFP_KERNEL);
+ chip->data_buffer = kzalloc(TPM_BUFSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (chip->data_buffer == NULL) {
clear_bit(0, &chip->is_open);
put_device(chip->dev);


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