linux-kernel - [PATCH] firewire: core: fix an information leak

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Message-ID: <tkrat.6a1e3df293205a1b@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:00:02 +0100 (CET)
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] firewire: core: fix an information leak

If a device exposes a sparsely populated configuration ROM,
firewire-core's sysfs interface and character device file interface
showed random data in the gaps between config ROM blocks.  Fix this by
zero-initialization of the config ROM reader's scratch buffer.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
---
 drivers/firewire/core-device.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: b/drivers/firewire/core-device.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/firewire/core-device.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/core-device.c
@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ static int read_bus_info_block(struct fw
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	stack = &rom[READ_BIB_ROM_SIZE];
+	memset(rom, 0, sizeof(*rom) * READ_BIB_ROM_SIZE);
 
 	device->max_speed = SCODE_100;
 

-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==-=- --=- =--==
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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