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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] staging: rts5139: use kzalloc() to close an info leak
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:31:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120923163129.GA21396@elgon.mountain> (raw)

If we don't fill the whole buffer then there is information leaked to
the user.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
Hopefully this is only reachable by root so it's probably not such a big
deal.

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rts5139/rts51x_fop.c b/drivers/staging/rts5139/rts51x_fop.c
index e1200fe..bf1a9e6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rts5139/rts51x_fop.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rts5139/rts51x_fop.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static int rts51x_sd_direct_cmnd(struct rts51x_chip *chip,
 
 	case 1:
 		/* Read from card */
-		buf = kmalloc(cmnd->buf_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+		buf = kzalloc(cmnd->buf_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!buf)
 			TRACE_RET(chip, STATUS_NOMEM);
 

                 reply	other threads:[~2012-09-23 16:31 UTC|newest]

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