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Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 17:41:24 +0300 From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com> To: kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] mtd: mtdchar: fix information leak to userland Structure mtd_info_user is copied to userland with padding byted between "type" and "flags" fields uninitialized. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com> --- Compile tested. drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c index 3eff1e5..2a0bc9e 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c @@ -601,6 +601,7 @@ static int mtd_ioctl(struct file *file, u_int cmd, u_long arg) } case MEMGETINFO: + memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info)); info.type = mtd->type; info.flags = mtd->flags; info.size = mtd->size; @@ -609,7 +610,6 @@ static int mtd_ioctl(struct file *file, u_int cmd, u_long arg) info.oobsize = mtd->oobsize; /* The below fields are obsolete */ info.ecctype = -1; - info.eccsize = 0; if (copy_to_user(argp, &info, sizeof(struct mtd_info_user))) return -EFAULT; break; -- 1.7.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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