Re: [PATCH] fbdev: potential information leak in do_fb_ioctl()

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On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 21:23 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The "fix" struct has a 2 byte hole after ->ywrapstep and the
> "fix = info->fix;" assignment doesn't necessarily clear it.  It depends
> on the compiler.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
[]
> @@ -1109,6 +1109,7 @@ static long do_fb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, unsigned int cmd,
>  			ret = -EFAULT;
>  		break;
>  	case FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO:
> +		memset(&fix, 0, sizeof(fix));
>  		lock_fb_info(info);
>  		fix = info->fix;
>  		if (info->flags & FBINFO_HIDE_SMEM_START)

Perhaps better to change the struct copy to a memcpy
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
index e6a1c80..364699 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
@@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ static long do_fb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, unsigned int cmd,
 		break;
 	case FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO:
 		lock_fb_info(info);
-		fix = info->fix;
+		memcpy(&fix, &info->fix, sizeof(fix));
 		if (info->flags & FBINFO_HIDE_SMEM_START)
 			fix.smem_start = 0;
 		unlock_fb_info(info);



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