From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kees Cook Subject: [PATCH] net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtool actions Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:10:04 -0700 Message-ID: <20101007211004.GA20267@outflux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "David S. Miller" , Ben Hutchings , Jeff Garzik , Jeff Kirsher , Peter P Waskiewicz Jr , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Several other ethtool functions leave heap uncleared (potentially) by drivers. Some interfaces appear safe (eeprom, etc), in that the sizes are well controlled. In some situations (e.g. unchecked error conditions), the heap will remain unchanged in areas before copying back to userspace. Note that these are less of an issue since these all require CAP_NET_ADMIN. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- net/core/ethtool.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c index 7a85367..fb9cf30 100644 --- a/net/core/ethtool.c +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static noinline_for_stack int ethtool_get_rxfh_indir(struct net_device *dev, (KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE - sizeof(*indir)) / sizeof(*indir->ring_index)) return -ENOMEM; full_size = sizeof(*indir) + sizeof(*indir->ring_index) * table_size; - indir = kmalloc(full_size, GFP_USER); + indir = kzalloc(full_size, GFP_USER); if (!indir) return -ENOMEM; @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_rx_ntuple(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr) gstrings.len = ret; - data = kmalloc(gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER); + data = kzalloc(gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER); if (!data) return -ENOMEM; @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_regs(struct net_device *dev, char __user *useraddr) if (regs.len > reglen) regs.len = reglen; - regbuf = kmalloc(reglen, GFP_USER); + regbuf = kzalloc(reglen, GFP_USER); if (!regbuf) return -ENOMEM; -- 1.7.1 -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team