The patch titled
drivers/char/applicom.c: fix information leak to userland
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
drivers-char-applicomc-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
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Subject: drivers/char/applicom.c: fix information leak to userland
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
Structure st_loc is copied to userland with some fields unitialized. It
leads to leaking of stack memory.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/applicom.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN drivers/char/applicom.c~drivers-char-applicomc-fix-information-leak-to-userland drivers/char/applicom.c
--- a/drivers/char/applicom.c~drivers-char-applicomc-fix-information-leak-to-userland
+++ a/drivers/char/applicom.c
@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ static ssize_t ac_read (struct file *fil
struct mailbox mailbox;
/* Got a packet for us */
+ memset(&st_loc, 0, sizeof(st_loc));
ret = do_ac_read(i, buf, &st_loc, &mailbox);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&apbs[i].mutex, flags);
set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from segooon@xxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
mm-mempolicy-check-return-code-of-check_range.patch
drivers-rtc-classc-fix-device_register-error-handling.patch
drivers-char-applicomc-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
char-hpet-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
char-ppdev-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
char-synclink_gt-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
memstick-core-fix-device_register-error-handling.patch
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