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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] firewire: info leak in ioctl_get_info()
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:24:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52625DDE.8010802@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131019091020.GE9312@longonot.mountain>

Dan Carpenter wrote:
> There is a 4 byte hole in the bus_reset struct at the end of the struct
> after ->generation.

queue_bus_reset_event() uses kzalloc(), and ioctl_get_info() does not copy
the hole.

> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
> index d7d5c8a..d34adb3 100644
> --- a/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
> @@ -353,6 +353,8 @@ static void fill_bus_reset_event(struct fw_cdev_event_bus_reset *event,
>  {
>  	struct fw_card *card = client->device->card;
>
> +	memset(event, 0, sizeof(*event));
> +
>  	spin_lock_irq(&card->lock);
>
>  	event->closure	     = client->bus_reset_closure;


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-19 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-19  9:10 [patch] firewire: info leak in ioctl_get_info() Dan Carpenter
2013-10-19 10:24 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2013-10-19 11:03 ` Stefan Richter
2013-10-19 11:08 ` Dan Carpenter

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