[PATCH 3.12 089/123] ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings

[Jiri Slaby]

From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[ Upstream commit 077cb37fcf6f00a45f375161200b5ee0cd4e937b ]

It seems that kernel memory can leak into userspace by a
kmalloc, ethtool_get_strings, then copy_to_user sequence.

Avoid this by using kcalloc to zero fill the copied buffer.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
 net/core/ethtool.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index 78e9d9223e40..944c60ce15d8 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_strings(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
 
 	gstrings.len = ret;
 
-	data = kmalloc(gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
+	data = kcalloc(gstrings.len, ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
 	if (!data)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.6.2

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