The patch titled
drivers/char/hpet.c: fix information leak to userland
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
drivers-char-hpetc-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
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Subject: drivers/char/hpet.c: fix information leak to userland
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
Structure info is copied to userland with some padding fields unitialized.
It leads to leaking of stack memory.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/hpet.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN drivers/char/hpet.c~drivers-char-hpetc-fix-information-leak-to-userland drivers/char/hpet.c
--- a/drivers/char/hpet.c~drivers-char-hpetc-fix-information-leak-to-userland
+++ a/drivers/char/hpet.c
@@ -631,6 +631,7 @@ hpet_ioctl_common(struct hpet_dev *devp,
break;
case HPET_INFO:
{
+ memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info));
if (devp->hd_ireqfreq)
info->hi_ireqfreq =
hpet_time_div(hpetp, devp->hd_ireqfreq);
_
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
drivers-char-hpetc-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
drivers-char-hpetc-fix-information-leak-to-userland-fix.patch
drivers-char-ppdevc-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
drivers-char-synclink_gtc-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
memstick-core-fix-device_register-error-handling.patch
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