From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: Re: [patch] net_sched: stack info leak in cbq_dump_wrr() Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:01:14 +0300 Message-ID: <20130729200114.GA29160@mwanda> References: <20130729193651.GA12525@elgon.mountain> <1375127072.2075.48.camel@joe-AO722> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim , "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org To: Joe Perches Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1375127072.2075.48.camel@joe-AO722> Sender: kernel-janitors-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:44:32PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 22:36 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > opt.__reserved isn't cleared so we leak a byte of stack information. > [] > > diff --git a/net/sched/sch_cbq.c b/net/sched/sch_cbq.c > [] > > @@ -1469,6 +1469,7 @@ static int cbq_dump_wrr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct cbq_class *cl) > > opt.allot = cl->allot; > > opt.priority = cl->priority + 1; > > opt.cpriority = cl->cpriority + 1; > > + opt.__reserved = 0; > > opt.weight = cl->weight; > > if (nla_put(skb, TCA_CBQ_WRROPT, sizeof(opt), &opt)) > > goto nla_put_failure; > > Alignment isn't guaranteed here so it'd > probably be better with a memset. > Hm... Which arches would align it differently? regards, dan carpenter