linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ASoC: SOF: ensure all fields in header are zero'd before copying back to userspace

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Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:57:43 +0100
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@....com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        sound-open-firmware@...a-project.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: SOF: ensure all fields in header are zero'd before
 copying back to userspace

On 22/04/2020 12:45, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:24:17PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> Field header.tlv is uninitialized and being copied back to userspace
>         ^^^^^^^^^^
> header.tlv is a zero element array so it doens't have any stack data.

Thanks Dan, I totally overlooked that. That's another class if issues I
need to triage correctly.

> 
>> and hence leaking data from the stack to userspace.  Fix this by
>> ensuring the header structure is zero'd.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
>