linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tty: fix compat TIOCGSERIAL leaking uninitialized memory

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Message-ID: <20200302212425.GB78660@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 Mar 2020 13:24:25 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tty: fix compat TIOCGSERIAL leaking uninitialized
 memory

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 08:30:35AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 24. 02. 20, 19:20, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> > 
> > Commit 77654350306a ("take compat TIOC[SG]SERIAL treatment into
> > tty_compat_ioctl()") changed the compat version of TIOCGSERIAL to start
> > copying a whole 'serial_struct32' to userspace rather than individual
> > fields, but failed to initialize all padding and fields -- namely the
> > hole after the 'iomem_reg_shift' field, and the 'reserved' field.
> > 
> > Fix this by initializing the struct to zero.
> > 
> > [v2: use sizeof, and convert the adjacent line for consistency.]
> > 
> > Reported-by: syzbot+8da9175e28eadcb203ce@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> > Fixes: 77654350306a ("take compat TIOC[SG]SERIAL treatment into tty_compat_ioctl()")
> > Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v4.20+
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
> 

Thanks.  Greg, are you planning to take these patches?

- Eric