From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] paride: potential information leak in pg_read()
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:25:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110923062548.GK4387@elgon.mountain> (raw)
Smatch has a new check for Rosenberg type information leaks where
structs are copied to the user with uninitialized stack data in them.
i
In this case, the pg_write_hdr struct has a hole in it.
struct pg_write_hdr {
char magic; /* 0 1 */
char func; /* 1 1 */
/* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */
int dlen; /* 4 4 */
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
diff --git a/drivers/block/paride/pg.c b/drivers/block/paride/pg.c
index 6b9a200..a79fb4f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/paride/pg.c
+++ b/drivers/block/paride/pg.c
@@ -630,6 +630,7 @@ static ssize_t pg_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t
if (dev->status & 0x10)
return -ETIME;
+ memset(&hdr, 0, sizeof(hdr));
hdr.magic = PG_MAGIC;
hdr.dlen = dev->dlen;
copy = 0;
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