linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] crypto: chtls: don't leak information from the stack to userspace

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Date:   Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:51:19 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Harsh Jain <harsh@...lsio.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Michael Werner <werner@...lsio.com>,
        Atul Gupta <atul.gupta@...lsio.com>,
        Casey Leedom <leedom@...lsio.com>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] crypto: chtls: don't leak information from the
 stack to userspace

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:44:03PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The structure crypto_info contains fields that are not initialized and
> only .version is set.  The copy_to_user call is hence leaking information
> from the stack to userspace which must be avoided. Fix this by zero'ing
> all the unused fields.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1467421 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> 
> Fixes: a08943947873 ("crypto: chtls - Register chtls with net tls")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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