netdev - [net 1/1] tipc: fix info leak from kernel tipc

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Message-ID: <1539877109-7722-1-git-send-email-jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:38:29 +0200
From:   Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
To:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <gordan.mihaljevic@...tech.com.au>, <tung.q.nguyen@...tech.com.au>,
        <hoang.h.le@...tech.com.au>, <jon.maloy@...csson.com>,
        <canh.d.luu@...tech.com.au>, <ying.xue@...driver.com>,
        <tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [net  1/1] tipc: fix info leak from kernel tipc_event

We initialize a struct tipc_event allocated on the kernel stack to
zero to avert info leak to user space.

Reported-by: syzbot+057458894bc8cada4dee@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
---
 net/tipc/group.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/tipc/group.c b/net/tipc/group.c
index e82f13c..06fee14 100644
--- a/net/tipc/group.c
+++ b/net/tipc/group.c
@@ -666,6 +666,7 @@ static void tipc_group_create_event(struct tipc_group *grp,
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	struct tipc_msg *hdr;
 
+	memset(&evt, 0, sizeof(evt));
 	evt.event = event;
 	evt.found_lower = m->instance;
 	evt.found_upper = m->instance;
-- 
2.1.4