linux-kernel - [106/118] netrom: fix info leak via msg_name in nr

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Date:	Fri, 10 May 2013 14:39:41 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Ralf Baechle" <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	"Mathias Krause" <minipli@...glemail.com>
Subject: [106/118] netrom: fix info leak via msg_name in nr_recvmsg()

3.2.45-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>

[ Upstream commits 3ce5efad47b62c57a4f5c54248347085a750ce0e and
  c802d759623acbd6e1ee9fbdabae89159a513913 ]

In case msg_name is set the sockaddr info gets filled out, as
requested, but the code fails to initialize the padding bytes of
struct sockaddr_ax25 inserted by the compiler for alignment. Also
the sax25_ndigis member does not get assigned, leaking four more
bytes.

Both issues lead to the fact that the code will leak uninitialized
kernel stack bytes in net/socket.c.

Fix both issues by initializing the memory with memset(0).

Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 net/netrom/af_netrom.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
+++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
@@ -1178,6 +1178,7 @@ static int nr_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb
 	}
 
 	if (sax != NULL) {
+		memset(sax, 0, sizeof(sax));
 		sax->sax25_family = AF_NETROM;
 		skb_copy_from_linear_data_offset(skb, 7, sax->sax25_call.ax25_call,
 			      AX25_ADDR_LEN);

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