From: Mathias Krause <mini...@googlemail.com>
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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit a117dacde0288f3ec60b6e5bcedae8fa37ee0dfc upstream.
The tun module leaks up to 36 bytes of memory by not fully initializing
a structure located on the stack that gets copied to user memory by the
TUNGETIFF and SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl()s.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <mini...@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com>
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 7b4a88b2f696..c777d8ebdaa8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1177,9 +1177,11 @@ static long __tun_chr_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned
int cmd,
int sndbuf;
int ret;
- if (cmd == TUNSETIFF || _IOC_TYPE(cmd) == 0x89)
+ if (cmd == TUNSETIFF || _IOC_TYPE(cmd) == 0x89) {
if (copy_from_user(&ifr, argp, ifreq_len))
return -EFAULT;
+ } else
+ memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(ifr));
if (cmd == TUNGETFEATURES) {
/* Currently this just means: "what IFF flags are valid?".
--
1.8.5.2
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