[PATCH 4.4 24/28] can: dev: prevent potential information leak in can_fill_info()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 02 2021 - 13:16:56 EST


From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit b552766c872f5b0d90323b24e4c9e8fa67486dd5 ]

The "bec" struct isn't necessarily always initialized. For example, the
mcp251xfd_get_berr_counter() function doesn't initialize anything if the
interface is down.

Fixes: 52c793f24054 ("can: netlink support for bus-error reporting and counters")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YAkaRdRJncsJO8Ve@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/can/dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
index 45f15ac6b1015..1a79118b008b1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
@@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ static int can_fill_info(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev)
{
struct can_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
struct can_ctrlmode cm = {.flags = priv->ctrlmode};
- struct can_berr_counter bec;
+ struct can_berr_counter bec = { };
enum can_state state = priv->state;

if (priv->do_get_state)
--
2.27.0