netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netlink: pad nla_memcpy dest buffer with zeroes

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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:31:30 +0100
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netlink: pad nla_memcpy dest buffer with zeroes

On 03/29/15 at 04:05pm, Jiri Benc wrote:
> This is especially important in cases where the kernel allocs a new
> structure and expects a field to be set from a netlink attribute. If such
> attribute is shorter than expected, the rest of the field is left containing
> previous data. When such field is read back by the user space, kernel memory
> content is leaked.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>

I think it is safe to assume that the caller intents to get all
of the destination buffer filled just as memcpy() would do.

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
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