Re: [PATCH 06/11] iio: light: vcnl4035: fix information leak in triggered buffer

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:16:14 +0100
Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com> wrote:

> The 'buffer' local array is used to push data to userspace from a
> triggered buffer, but it does not set an initial value for the single
> data element, which is an u16 aligned to 8 bytes. That leaves at least
> 4 bytes uninitialized even after writing an integer value with
> regmap_read().
> 
> Initialize the array to zero before using it to avoid pushing
> uninitialized information to userspace.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: ec90b52c07c0 ("iio: light: vcnl4035: Fix buffer alignment in iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp()")
> Signed-off-by: Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com>
Applied.
> ---
>  drivers/iio/light/vcnl4035.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/vcnl4035.c b/drivers/iio/light/vcnl4035.c
> index 337a1332c2c6..67c94be02018 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/light/vcnl4035.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/light/vcnl4035.c
> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static irqreturn_t vcnl4035_trigger_consumer_handler(int irq, void *p)
>  	struct iio_dev *indio_dev = pf->indio_dev;
>  	struct vcnl4035_data *data = iio_priv(indio_dev);
>  	/* Ensure naturally aligned timestamp */
> -	u8 buffer[ALIGN(sizeof(u16), sizeof(s64)) + sizeof(s64)]  __aligned(8);
> +	u8 buffer[ALIGN(sizeof(u16), sizeof(s64)) + sizeof(s64)]  __aligned(8) = { };
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	ret = regmap_read(data->regmap, VCNL4035_ALS_DATA, (int *)buffer);
>