From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The structure crypto_info contains fields that are not initialized and only .version is set. The copy_to_user call is hence leaking information from the stack to userspace which must be avoided. Fix this by zero'ing all the unused fields. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1467421 ("Uninitialized scalar variable") Fixes: a08943947873 ("crypto: chtls - Register chtls with net tls") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_main.c b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_main.c index 007c45c38fc7..69f3756eb980 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_main.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_main.c @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static int chtls_uld_rx_handler(void *handle, const __be64 *rsp, static int do_chtls_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, char __user *optval, int __user *optlen) { - struct tls_crypto_info crypto_info; + struct tls_crypto_info crypto_info = { 0 }; crypto_info.version = TLS_1_2_VERSION; if (copy_to_user(optval, &crypto_info, sizeof(struct tls_crypto_info))) -- 2.15.1