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| author | Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com> | 2010-10-28 02:34:21 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-28 05:03:14 +0400 |
| commit | b9b1134260e036fb75c468514569864dd6722f3e (patch) | |
| tree | 1b93c6c85e6ed6aaf582f91ed9827586de002730 /drivers | |
| parent | 19714a8af8fe8618a9beace1f7a3bb10d55d5e2f (diff) | |
| download | linux-b9b1134260e036fb75c468514569864dd6722f3e.tar.xz | |
drivers/char/ppdev.c: fix information leak to userland
Structure par_timeout is copied to userland with some padding fields
unitialized. Field tv_usec has type __kernel_suseconds_t, it differs from
tv_sec's type on some architectures. It leads to leaking of stack memory.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/ppdev.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ppdev.c b/drivers/char/ppdev.c index 723152d978a9..f176dbaeb15a 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ppdev.c +++ b/drivers/char/ppdev.c @@ -613,6 +613,7 @@ static int pp_do_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) case PPGETTIME: to_jiffies = pp->pdev->timeout; + memset(&par_timeout, 0, sizeof(par_timeout)); par_timeout.tv_sec = to_jiffies / HZ; par_timeout.tv_usec = (to_jiffies % (long)HZ) * (1000000/HZ); if (copy_to_user (argp, &par_timeout, sizeof(struct timeval))) |