[PATCH 4.16 23/72] compat: fix 4-byte infoleak via uninitialized struct field

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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

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From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 0a0b98734479aa5b3c671d5190e86273372cab95 upstream.

Commit 3a4d44b61625 ("ntp: Move adjtimex related compat syscalls to
native counterparts") removed the memset() in compat_get_timex().  Since
then, the compat adjtimex syscall can invoke do_adjtimex() with an
uninitialized ->tai.

If do_adjtimex() doesn't write to ->tai (e.g.  because the arguments are
invalid), compat_put_timex() then copies the uninitialized ->tai field
to userspace.

Fix it by adding the memset() back.

Fixes: 3a4d44b61625 ("ntp: Move adjtimex related compat syscalls to native counterparts")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 kernel/compat.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/kernel/compat.c
+++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ int compat_get_timex(struct timex *txc,
 {
 	struct compat_timex tx32;
 
+	memset(txc, 0, sizeof(struct timex));
 	if (copy_from_user(&tx32, utp, sizeof(struct compat_timex)))
 		return -EFAULT;