Subject: + drivers-misc-sgi-gru-grufilec-fix-info-leak-in-gru_get_config_info.patch added to -mm tree
To: dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx,holt@xxxxxxx,sivanich@xxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 14:26:42 -0700
The patch titled
Subject: drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c: fix info leak in gru_get_config_info()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
drivers-misc-sgi-gru-grufilec-fix-info-leak-in-gru_get_config_info.patch
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c: fix info leak in gru_get_config_info()
The "info.fill" array isn't initialized so it can leak uninitialized stack
information to user space.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c~drivers-misc-sgi-gru-grufilec-fix-info-leak-in-gru_get_config_info drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c~drivers-misc-sgi-gru-grufilec-fix-info-leak-in-gru_get_config_info
+++ a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ static long gru_get_config_info(unsigned
nodesperblade = 2;
else
nodesperblade = 1;
+ memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
info.cpus = num_online_cpus();
info.nodes = num_online_nodes();
info.blades = info.nodes / nodesperblade;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
drivers-misc-sgi-gru-grufilec-fix-info-leak-in-gru_get_config_info.patch
configfs-use-capped-length-for-store_attribute.patch
errh-is_err-can-accept-__user-pointers.patch
rbtree-remove-unneeded-include.patch
rbtree-remove-unneeded-include-fix.patch
minix-bug-widening-a-binary-not-operation.patch
documentation-codingstyle-allow-multiple-return-statements-per-function.patch
mwave-fix-info-leak-in-mwave_ioctl.patch
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