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Message-Id: <20110419204119.601272869@clark.kroah.org>
Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:31:05 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [27/28] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>

commit 5b919f833d9d60588d026ad82d17f17e8872c7a9 upstream.

Commit fe10ae53384e48c51996941b7720ee16995cbcb7 adds a memset() to clear
the structure being sent back to userspace, but accidentally used the
wrong size.

Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 net/ax25/af_ax25.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -1391,7 +1391,7 @@ static int ax25_getname(struct socket *s
 	ax25_cb *ax25;
 	int err = 0;
 
-	memset(fsa, 0, sizeof(fsa));
+	memset(fsa, 0, sizeof(*fsa));
 	lock_sock(sk);
 	ax25 = ax25_sk(sk);
 


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