Re: [PATCH v3] vduse: prevent uninitialized memory accesses

From: Chaitanya Kulkarni
Date: Wed Aug 31 2022 - 12:59:24 EST


On 8/31/22 08:49, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> If the VDUSE application provides a smaller config space
> than the driver expects, the driver may use uninitialized
> memory from the stack.
>
> This patch prevents it by initializing the buffer passed by
> the driver to store the config value.
>
> This fix addresses CVE-2022-2308.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.15+
> Fixes: c8a6153b6c59 ("vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace")
> Reviewed-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx>