linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.14 48/96] USB: usbfs: dont leak kernel data in siginfo

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Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:09:19 +0100
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Dave Mielke <dave@...lke.cc>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 48/96] USB: usbfs: dont leak kernel data in siginfo

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>

commit f0c2b68198589249afd2b1f2c4e8de8c03e19c16 upstream.

When a signal is delivered, the information in the siginfo structure
is copied to userspace.  Good security practice dicatates that the
unused fields in this structure should be initialized to 0 so that
random kernel stack data isn't exposed to the user.  This patch adds
such an initialization to the two places where usbfs raises signals.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Reported-by: Dave Mielke <dave@...lke.cc>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/usb/core/devio.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
@@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ static void async_completed(struct urb *
 	as->status = urb->status;
 	signr = as->signr;
 	if (signr) {
+		memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo));
 		sinfo.si_signo = as->signr;
 		sinfo.si_errno = as->status;
 		sinfo.si_code = SI_ASYNCIO;
@@ -2227,6 +2228,7 @@ static void usbdev_remove(struct usb_dev
 		wake_up_all(&ps->wait);
 		list_del_init(&ps->list);
 		if (ps->discsignr) {
+			memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo));
 			sinfo.si_signo = ps->discsignr;
 			sinfo.si_errno = EPIPE;
 			sinfo.si_code = SI_ASYNCIO;


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