[PATCH v2] fs: select: fix information leak to userspace

[Vasiliy Kulikov]

On some architectures __kernel_suseconds_t is int.  On these archs
struct timeval has padding bytes at the end.  This struct is copied to
userspace with these padding bytes uninitialized.  This leads to leaking
of contents of kernel stack memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Patch v1 used memset(), it was waste of cycles on almost all archs.

 Compile tested.

 fs/select.c |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/select.c b/fs/select.c
index b7b10aa..43d4805 100644
--- a/fs/select.c
+++ b/fs/select.c
@@ -288,7 +288,6 @@ static int poll_select_copy_remaining(struct timespec *end_time, void __user *p,
 				      int timeval, int ret)
 {
 	struct timespec rts;
-	struct timeval rtv;
 
 	if (!p)
 		return ret;
@@ -306,8 +305,10 @@ static int poll_select_copy_remaining(struct timespec *end_time, void __user *p,
 		rts.tv_sec = rts.tv_nsec = 0;
 
 	if (timeval) {
-		rtv.tv_sec = rts.tv_sec;
-		rtv.tv_usec = rts.tv_nsec / NSEC_PER_USEC;
+		struct timeval rtv = {
+			.tv_sec = rts.tv_sec,
+			.tv_usec = rts.tv_nsec / NSEC_PER_USEC
+		};
 
 		if (!copy_to_user(p, &rtv, sizeof(rtv)))
 			return ret;
-- 
1.7.0.4
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