netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/appletalk: Fix kernel memory disclosure

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Date:   Mon, 09 Jan 2017 16:38:52 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vlad@...rklevich.net
Cc:     acme@...stprotocols.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/appletalk: Fix kernel memory disclosure

From: Vlad Tsyrklevich <vlad@...rklevich.net>
Date: Mon,  9 Jan 2017 20:57:48 +0700

> ipddp_route structs contain alignment padding so kernel heap memory
> is leaked when they are copied to user space in
> ipddp_ioctl(SIOCFINDIPDDPRT). Change kmalloc() to kzalloc() to clear
> that memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Tsyrklevich <vlad@...rklevich.net>

Applied.