netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: tipc: fix possible infoleak in tipc_mon

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Date:   Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:31:18 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@...il.com>
Cc:     jmaloy@...hat.com, ying.xue@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com,
        tung.q.nguyen@...tech.com.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: tipc: fix possible infoleak in tipc_mon_rcv()

On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:31:22 +0800 Hangyu Hua wrote:
> dom_bef is use to cache current domain record only if current domain
> exists. But when current domain does not exist, dom_bef will still be used
> in mon_identify_lost_members. This may lead to an information leak.

AFAICT applied_bef must be zero if peer->domain was 0, so I don't think
mon_identify_lost_members() will do anything.

> Fix this by adding a memset before using dom_bef.
> 
> Fixes: 35c55c9877f8 ("tipc: add neighbor monitoring framework")
> Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@...il.com>