netdev - Re: [patch] qlcnic: info leak in qlcnic_dcb_peer_app

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Date:	Sat, 24 May 2014 14:01:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:	shahed.shaikh@...gic.com, sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com,
	Dept-HSGLinuxNICDev@...gic.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] qlcnic: info leak in qlcnic_dcb_peer_app_info()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 19:37:21 +0300

> This function is called from dcbnl_build_peer_app().  The "info"
> struct isn't initialized at all so we disclose 2 bytes of uninitialized
> stack data.  We should clear it before passing it to the user.
> 
> Fixes: 48365e485275 ('qlcnic: dcb: Add support for CEE Netlink interface.')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> ---
> This is a static analysis patch, and I am not familiar with this code.
> We may want to put some useful information here, to go with the
> app_count.

I've applied this and queued it up for -stable, thanks Dan.
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