RE: [patch] qlcnic: info leak in qlcnic_dcb_peer_app_info()

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 10:07 PM
> To: Shahed Shaikh; Sucheta Chakraborty
> Cc: Dept-HSG Linux NIC Dev; netdev; kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [patch] qlcnic: info leak in qlcnic_dcb_peer_app_info()
> 
> This function is called from dcbnl_build_peer_app().  The "info"
> struct isn't initialized at all so we disclose 2 bytes of uninitialized
> stack data.  We should clear it before passing it to the user.
> 
> Fixes: 48365e485275 ('qlcnic: dcb: Add support for CEE Netlink
> interface.')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Sucheta.

> ---
> This is a static analysis patch, and I am not familiar with this code.
> We may want to put some useful information here, to go with the
> app_count.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_dcb.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_dcb.c
> index a51fe18..561cb11 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_dcb.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_dcb.c
> @@ -1020,6 +1020,7 @@ static int qlcnic_dcb_peer_app_info(struct
> net_device *netdev,
>  	struct qlcnic_dcb_cee *peer;
>  	int i;
> 
> +	memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info));
>  	*app_count = 0;
> 
>  	if (!test_bit(QLCNIC_DCB_STATE, &adapter->dcb->state))
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