[34-longterm 222/260] pcmcia: synclink_cs: fix information leak to userland

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Sun Jan 02 2011 - 02:35:48 EST


From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 5b917a1420d3d1a9c8da49fb0090692dc9aaee86 upstream.

Structure new_line is copied to userland with some padding fields unitialized.
It leads to leaking of stack memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c b/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c
index c31a0d9..1165503 100644
--- a/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c
@@ -4144,6 +4144,8 @@ static int hdlcdev_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
if (cmd != SIOCWANDEV)
return hdlc_ioctl(dev, ifr, cmd);

+ memset(&new_line, 0, size);
+
switch(ifr->ifr_settings.type) {
case IF_GET_IFACE: /* return current sync_serial_settings */

--
1.7.3.3

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