Re: [patch] RDMA/cxgb3: stack info leak in iwch_craete_cq()

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On 7/25/2013 12:04 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
The "uresp.reserved" field isn't initialized.  It's at the end, of the
struct here so we don't need to copy it to the user.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c
index e87f220..b8e26f2 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static struct ib_cq *iwch_create_cq(struct ib_device *ibdev, int entries, int ve
  			mm->len = PAGE_ALIGN(((1UL << uresp.size_log2) + 1) *
  					     sizeof(struct t3_cqe));
  			uresp.memsize = mm->len;
-			resplen = sizeof uresp;
+			resplen = sizeof uresp - sizeof uresp.reserved;
  		}
  		if (ib_copy_to_udata(udata, &uresp, resplen)) {
  			kfree(mm);

How did you find this?

What if, in the future, the iwch_create_cq_resp struct is changed and stuff added to the end? I'm not sure this optimization is worth it?


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