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From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
	Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
	Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/9] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Prevent kernel stack memory leak to userspace
Date: Fri,  1 May 2026 09:41:41 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bfe03b65a282c856ed8182d1871bb973c0b78f2.1777606826.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1777606826.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com>

The hdr variable is allocated on the stack and only hdr.version and
hdr.flags are initialized explicitly. Because the struct papr_hvpipe_hdr
contains reserved padding bytes (reserved[3] and reserved2[40]), these
could leak the uninitialized bytes to userspace after copy_to_user().

This patch fixes that by initializing the whole struct to 0.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: cebdb522fd3ed ("powerpc/pseries: Receive payload with ibm,receive-hvpipe-msg RTAS")
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr-hvpipe.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr-hvpipe.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr-hvpipe.c
index c41d45e1986d..3392874ebdf6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr-hvpipe.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr-hvpipe.c
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ static ssize_t papr_hvpipe_handle_read(struct file *file,
 {
 
 	struct hvpipe_source_info *src_info = file->private_data;
-	struct papr_hvpipe_hdr hdr;
+	struct papr_hvpipe_hdr hdr = {};
 	long ret;
 
 	/*
-- 
2.39.5


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-01  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1777606826.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com>
2026-05-01  4:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix race with interrupt handler Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-05-01  4:11 ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM) [this message]
2026-05-01  4:11 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix null ptr deref in papr_hvpipe_dev_create_handle() Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-05-01  4:11 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix & simplify error handling in papr_hvpipe_init() Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-05-01  4:11 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix the usage of copy_to_user() Ritesh Harjani (IBM)

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