From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] tc: Fix unitialized kernel memory leak
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:40:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9E67A9.7090205@gmail.com> (raw)
Three bytes of uninitialized kernel memory are currently leaked to user
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_api.c b/net/sched/sch_api.c
index 24d17ce..fdb694e 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_api.c
@@ -1456,6 +1456,8 @@ static int tc_fill_tclass(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
nlh = NLMSG_NEW(skb, pid, seq, event, sizeof(*tcm), flags);
tcm = NLMSG_DATA(nlh);
tcm->tcm_family = AF_UNSPEC;
+ tcm->tcm__pad1 = 0;
+ tcm->tcm__pad2 = 0;
tcm->tcm_ifindex = qdisc_dev(q)->ifindex;
tcm->tcm_parent = q->handle;
tcm->tcm_handle = q->handle;
next reply other threads:[~2009-09-02 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-02 12:40 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-09-02 18:09 ` [PATCH] tc: Fix unitialized kernel memory leak Jiri Pirko
2009-09-03 5:51 ` David Miller
2009-09-02 19:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-09-03 5:51 ` David Miller
2009-09-03 6:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-09-03 6:45 ` David Miller
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