[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 021/164] HID: core: Avoid uninitialized buffer access

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.19.8-ckt11 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

--

From: Richard Purdie 

commit 79b568b9d0c7c5d81932f4486d50b38efdd6da6d upstream.

hid_connect adds various strings to the buffer but they're all
conditional. You can find circumstances where nothing would be written
to it but the kernel will still print the supposedly empty buffer with
printk. This leads to corruption on the console/in the logs.

Ensure buf is initialized to an empty string.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie 
[dvhart: Initialize string to "" rather than assign buf[0] = NULL;]
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: linux-in...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa 
---
 drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index 8b63879..d7d965f 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -1562,7 +1562,7 @@ int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int 
connect_mask)
"Multi-Axis Controller"
};
const char *type, *bus;
-   char buf[64];
+   char buf[64] = "";
unsigned int i;
int len;
int ret;
-- 
1.9.1

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[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 021/164] HID: core: Avoid uninitialized buffer access

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.19.8-ckt11 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

--

From: Richard Purdie 

commit 79b568b9d0c7c5d81932f4486d50b38efdd6da6d upstream.

hid_connect adds various strings to the buffer but they're all
conditional. You can find circumstances where nothing would be written
to it but the kernel will still print the supposedly empty buffer with
printk. This leads to corruption on the console/in the logs.

Ensure buf is initialized to an empty string.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie 
[dvhart: Initialize string to "" rather than assign buf[0] = NULL;]
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: linux-in...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa 
---
 drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index 8b63879..d7d965f 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -1562,7 +1562,7 @@ int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int 
connect_mask)
"Multi-Axis Controller"
};
const char *type, *bus;
-   char buf[64];
+   char buf[64] = "";
unsigned int i;
int len;
int ret;
-- 
1.9.1

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