netdev - [PATCH] fix infoleak in wireless

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Date:	Tue,  3 May 2016 16:40:13 -0400
From:	Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@...il.com>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Kangjie Lu <kjlu@...ech.edu>
Subject: [PATCH] fix infoleak in wireless

The 6-bytes array “mac_addr” is not initialized in the dump_station
implementations of “drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c”
and “drivers/staging/rtl8723au/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c”, so all 6
bytes may be leaked.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@...ech.edu>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 056a730..2e92d14 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -3905,6 +3905,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_station(struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	while (1) {
 		memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo));
+		eth_zero_addr(mac_addr);
 		err = rdev_dump_station(rdev, wdev->netdev, sta_idx,
 					mac_addr, &sinfo);
 		if (err == -ENOENT)
-- 
1.9.1