On 06/07/2017 11:00 AM, Yuval Mintz wrote:
Some of the structure's fields are not initialized by the
rtnetlink. If driver doesn't set those in ndo_get_vf_config(),
they'd leak memory to user.

Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuval.mi...@cavium.com>
CC: Michal Schmidt <mschm...@redhat.com>
---
  net/core/rtnetlink.c | 3 ++-
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 9e2c0a7..5e61456 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1124,6 +1124,8 @@ static noinline_for_stack int rtnl_fill_vfinfo(struct 
sk_buff *skb,
      struct ifla_vf_mac vf_mac;
      struct ifla_vf_info ivi;

+    memset(&ivi, 0, sizeof(ivi));
+
      /* Not all SR-IOV capable drivers support the
       * spoofcheck and "RSS query enable" query.  Preset to
       * -1 so the user space tool can detect that the driver
@@ -1132,7 +1134,6 @@ static noinline_for_stack int rtnl_fill_vfinfo(struct 
sk_buff *skb,
      ivi.spoofchk = -1;
      ivi.rss_query_en = -1;
      ivi.trusted = -1;
-    memset(ivi.mac, 0, sizeof(ivi.mac));
      /* The default value for VF link state is "auto"
       * IFLA_VF_LINK_STATE_AUTO which equals zero
       */

It's been a few years since I worked in this code but I do recall this portion. 
 Good idea...

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8...@gmail.com>

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