netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net/tun: fix ioctl() based info leaks

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Date:	Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:34:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	minipli@...glemail.com, richard.weinberger@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/tun: fix ioctl() based info leaks

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:22:20 +0200

> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 07:45 +0200, Mathias Krause wrote:
>> The tun module leaks up to 36 bytes of memory by not fully initializing
>> a structure located on the stack that gets copied to user memory by the
>> TUNGETIFF and SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl()s.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
>> ---
>> v2:
>> - removed braces around else branch
>> - minor adjustment of the commit message
>> 
>>  drivers/net/tun.c |    4 +++-
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> index 987aeef..01255ff 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> @@ -1252,9 +1252,11 @@ static long __tun_chr_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
>>  	int vnet_hdr_sz;
>>  	int ret;
>>  
>> -	if (cmd == TUNSETIFF || _IOC_TYPE(cmd) == 0x89)
>> +	if (cmd == TUNSETIFF || _IOC_TYPE(cmd) == 0x89) {
>>  		if (copy_from_user(&ifr, argp, ifreq_len))
>>  			return -EFAULT;
>> +	} else
>> +		memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(ifr));
>>  
>>  	if (cmd == TUNGETFEATURES) {
>>  		/* Currently this just means: "what IFF flags are valid?".
> 
> 
> Actually braces were better
> 
> vi +169 Documentation/CodingStyle
> 
> This does not apply if only one branch of a conditional statement is a
> single
> statement; in the latter case use braces in both branches:
> 
> if (condition) {
>         do_this();
>         do_that();
> } else {
>         otherwise();
> }

Ok I'll fix this up myself.
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