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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: kangjielu@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, juerg.haefliger@hpe.com,
	kjlu@gatech.edu, santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "rds: fix an infoleak in rds_inc_info_copy" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:36:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <147343178716471@kroah.com> (raw)


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rds: fix an infoleak in rds_inc_info_copy

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     rds-fix-an-infoleak-in-rds_inc_info_copy.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 4116def2337991b39919f3b448326e21c40e0dbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 04:11:20 -0400
Subject: rds: fix an infoleak in rds_inc_info_copy

From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com>

commit 4116def2337991b39919f3b448326e21c40e0dbb upstream.

The last field "flags" of object "minfo" is not initialized.
Copying this object out may leak kernel stack data.
Assign 0 to it to avoid leak.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@gatech.edu>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/rds/recv.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/net/rds/recv.c
+++ b/net/rds/recv.c
@@ -543,5 +543,7 @@ void rds_inc_info_copy(struct rds_incomi
 		minfo.fport = inc->i_hdr.h_dport;
 	}
 
+	minfo.flags = 0;
+
 	rds_info_copy(iter, &minfo, sizeof(minfo));
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kangjielu@gmail.com are

queue-3.14/rds-fix-an-infoleak-in-rds_inc_info_copy.patch

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