On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 08:26:16PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 09:14:47PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > From: Haimin Zhang <tcs.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The ib_copy_ah_attr_to_user() function only initializes "resp.grh" if
> > the "resp.is_global" flag is set. Unfortunately, this data is copied to
> > the user and copying uninitialized stack data to the user is an
> > information leak. Zero out the whole struct to be safe.
> >
> > Fixes: 4ba66093bdc6 ("IB/core: Check for global flag when using ah_attr")
> > Reported-by: TCS Robot <tcs_robot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Haimin Zhang <tcs.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Resending through the regular lists.
> >
> > I added parentheses around the sizeof to make checkpatch happy.
> > s/sizeof resp/sizeof(resp)/.
> >
> > drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> The change is ok, but I prefer to initialize to zero as early as possible.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
> index 2b72c4fa9550..6d801ed2e46b 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
> @@ -1211,9 +1211,9 @@ static ssize_t ucma_init_qp_attr(struct ucma_file *file,
> int in_len, int out_len)
> {
> struct rdma_ucm_init_qp_attr cmd;
> - struct ib_uverbs_qp_attr resp;
> + struct ib_uverbs_qp_attr resp = {};
> struct ucma_context *ctx;
> - struct ib_qp_attr qp_attr;
> + struct ib_qp_attr qp_attr = {};
Will that catch all of the padding in the structure? This seems to come
up a lot and I never remember...
thanks,
greg k-h
