From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 09:02:31 +0000 Subject: [patch] staging: alarm-dev: information leak in alarm_ioctl() Message-Id: <20130603090231.GB16171@debian> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Smatch complains that if we pass an invalid clock type then "ts" is never set. We need to check for errors earlier, otherwise we end up passing uninitialized stack data to userspace. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/alarm-dev.c b/drivers/staging/android/alarm-dev.c index ceb1c643..c8600d9 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/android/alarm-dev.c +++ b/drivers/staging/android/alarm-dev.c @@ -264,6 +264,8 @@ static long alarm_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) } rv = alarm_do_ioctl(file, cmd, &ts); + if (rv) + return rv; switch (ANDROID_ALARM_BASE_CMD(cmd)) { case ANDROID_ALARM_GET_TIME(0): @@ -272,7 +274,7 @@ static long alarm_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) break; } - return rv; + return 0; } #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT static long alarm_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,