[PATCH AUTOSEL for 3.18 3/9] net/appletalk: Fix kernel memory disclosure

From: alexander . levin
Date: Wed Nov 22 2017 - 18:06:27 EST


From: Vlad Tsyrklevich <vlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit ce7e40c432ba84da104438f6799d460a4cad41bc ]

ipddp_route structs contain alignment padding so kernel heap memory
is leaked when they are copied to user space in
ipddp_ioctl(SIOCFINDIPDDPRT). Change kmalloc() to kzalloc() to clear
that memory.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Tsyrklevich <vlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c b/drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c
index e90c6a7333d7..2e4649655181 100644
--- a/drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t ipddp_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
*/
static int ipddp_create(struct ipddp_route *new_rt)
{
- struct ipddp_route *rt = kmalloc(sizeof(*rt), GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct ipddp_route *rt = kzalloc(sizeof(*rt), GFP_KERNEL);

if (rt == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.11.0