netdev - [patch] farsync: fix info leak in ioctl

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Date:	Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:50:03 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Kevin Curtis <kevin.curtis@...site.co.uk>
Cc:	Salva Peiró <speiro@....upv.es>,
	security@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] farsync: fix info leak in ioctl

From: Salva Peiró <speiro@....upv.es>

The fst_get_iface() code fails to initialize the two padding bytes of
struct sync_serial_settings after the ->loopback member. Add an explicit
memset(0) before filling the structure to avoid the info leak.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

---
 linux-3.4-xm/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/linux-3.4-xm/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c b/linux-3.4-xm/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c
index 1a62318..3710427 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c
@@ -1972,6 +1972,7 @@ fst_get_iface(struct fst_card_info *card, struct fst_port_info *port,
 	}
 
 	i = port->index;
+	memset(&sync, 0, sizeof(sync));
 	sync.clock_rate = FST_RDL(card, portConfig[i].lineSpeed);
 	/* Lucky card and linux use same encoding here */
 	sync.clock_type = FST_RDB(card, portConfig[i].internalClock) ==
-- 
1.7.10.4

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