On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 07:29:09PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
>
>
> Am 25.07.2013 18:46, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> > p_ca_slot_info was allocated with kmalloc() so we need to clear it
> > before passing it to the user.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst_ca.c b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst_ca.c
> > index 0e788fc..6b9dc3f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst_ca.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst_ca.c
> > @@ -302,8 +302,11 @@ static int ca_get_slot_info(struct dst_state *state, struct ca_slot_info *p_ca_s
> > p_ca_slot_info->flags = CA_CI_MODULE_READY;
> > p_ca_slot_info->num = 1;
> > p_ca_slot_info->type = CA_CI;
> > - } else
> > + } else {
> > p_ca_slot_info->flags = 0;
> > + p_ca_slot_info->num = 0;
> > + p_ca_slot_info->type = 0;
> > + }
> >
> > if (copy_to_user(arg, p_ca_slot_info, sizeof (struct ca_slot_info)))
> > return -EFAULT;
>
> note: i have no clue how p_ca_slot_info looks like,
> but to avoid information leaks via compiler padding etc. i could be more wise
> to do a memset(p_ca_slot_info,0,sizeof (struct ca_slot_info))
> and then set the
There is no compiler padding. My static checker looks for that.
regards,
dan carpenter
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