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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: [07/17] wext: fix potential private ioctl memory content leak
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:39:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101022184033.121199762@clark.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101022184048.GA25391@kroah.com>

2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

commit df6d02300f7c2fbd0fbe626d819c8e5237d72c62 upstream.

When a driver doesn't fill the entire buffer, old
heap contents may remain, and if it also doesn't
update the length properly, this old heap content
will be copied back to userspace.

It is very unlikely that this happens in any of
the drivers using private ioctls since it would
show up as junk being reported by iwpriv, but it
seems better to be safe here, so use kzalloc.

Reported-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 net/wireless/wext.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/wireless/wext.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext.c
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ static int ioctl_private_iw_point(struct
 	} else if (!iwp->pointer)
 		return -EFAULT;
 
-	extra = kmalloc(extra_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	extra = kzalloc(extra_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!extra)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-22 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-22 18:40 [00/17] 2.6.27.55-stable review Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [01/17] aio: check for multiplication overflow in do_io_submit Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [02/17] guard page for stacks that grow upwards Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [03/17] ALSA: sound/pci/rme9652: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [04/17] ALSA: prevent heap corruption in snd_ctl_new() Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [05/17] v4l1: fix 32-bit compat microcode loading translation Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [06/17] dmaengine: fix interrupt clearing for mv_xor Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [08/17] atl1: fix resume Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [09/17] [SCSI] bsg: fix incorrect device_status value Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [10/17] r6040: fix r6040_multicast_list Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [11/17] r6040: Fix multicast list iteration when hash filter is used Greg KH
2010-10-22 19:13   ` Jack Stone
2010-10-22 19:23     ` Greg KH
2010-10-22 19:29       ` Jack Stone
2010-10-22 21:18         ` Ben Hutchings
2010-10-22 21:23           ` Jack Stone
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [12/17] powerpc: Initialise paca->kstack before early_setup_secondary Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [13/17] powerpc: Dont use kernel stack with translation off Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [14/17] b44: fix carrier detection on bind Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [15/17] setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [16/17] execve: improve interactivity with large arguments Greg KH
2010-10-22 18:39 ` [17/17] execve: make responsive to SIGKILL " Greg KH

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