Re: [PATCH] tap: fix stack info leak in tap_ioctl() SIOCGIFHWADDR
From: Willem de Bruijn
Date: Wed May 20 2026 - 17:31:09 EST
Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> Weiming Shi wrote:
> > In the SIOCGIFHWADDR path, tap_ioctl() copies 16 bytes of an
> > uninitialised on-stack struct sockaddr_storage to userspace via
> > ifr_hwaddr, but netif_get_mac_address() only writes sa_family and
> > dev->addr_len (6 for Ethernet) bytes, leaving sa_data[6..13] uninitialised.
> >
> > Those 8 trailing bytes leak kernel stack contents; SIOCGIFHWADDR on a
> > macvtap chardev returns kernel .text and direct-map pointers, defeating
> > KASLR.
> >
> > Initialise ss at declaration.
> >
> > Fixes: 3b23a32a6321 ("net: fix dev_ifsioc_locked() race condition")
> > Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@xxxxxxx>
> > Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
> > Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
But it should target [PATCH net] and
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