[PATCH] [44/50] staging: comedi: fix infoleak to userspace

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Jul 28 2011 - 19:47:18 EST


2.6.35-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ upstream commit 819cbb120eaec7e014e5abd029260db1ca8c5735 ]

driver_name and board_name are pointers to strings, not buffers of size
COMEDI_NAMELEN. Copying COMEDI_NAMELEN bytes of a string containing
less than COMEDI_NAMELEN-1 bytes would leak some unrelated bytes.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ static int do_devinfo_ioctl(struct comed
/* fill devinfo structure */
devinfo.version_code = COMEDI_VERSION_CODE;
devinfo.n_subdevs = dev->n_subdevices;
- memcpy(devinfo.driver_name, dev->driver->driver_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);
- memcpy(devinfo.board_name, dev->board_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);
+ strlcpy(devinfo.driver_name, dev->driver->driver_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);
+ strlcpy(devinfo.board_name, dev->board_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);

if (read_subdev)
devinfo.read_subdevice = read_subdev - dev->subdevices;
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