Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c: prevent readinguninitialized stack memory

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Sep 17 2010 - 00:55:33 EST


From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:43:12 -0400

> Fixed formatting (tabs and line breaks).
>
> The CHELSIO_GET_QSET_NUM device ioctl allows unprivileged users to read
> 4 bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the "addr" member of the
> ch_reg struct declared on the stack in cxgb_extension_ioctl() is not
> altered or zeroed before being copied back to the user. This patch
> takes care of it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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