This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: ethtool: clear heap allocations for ethtool function to the 5.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-ethtool-clear-heap-allocations-for-ethtool-funct.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 96840b77ee533a8b39c52f435788d021beb52812 Author: Austin Kim <austindh.kim@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jun 9 03:34:25 2021 +0100 net: ethtool: clear heap allocations for ethtool function [ Upstream commit 80ec82e3d2c1fab42eeb730aaa7985494a963d3f ] Several ethtool functions leave heap uncleared (potentially) by drivers. This will leave the unused portion of heap unchanged and might copy the full contents back to userspace. Signed-off-by: Austin Kim <austindh.kim@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/ethtool/ioctl.c b/net/ethtool/ioctl.c index 2603966da904..e910890a868c 100644 --- a/net/ethtool/ioctl.c +++ b/net/ethtool/ioctl.c @@ -1421,7 +1421,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_any_eeprom(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr, if (eeprom.offset + eeprom.len > total_len) return -EINVAL; - data = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_USER); + data = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_USER); if (!data) return -ENOMEM; @@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ static int ethtool_set_eeprom(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr) if (eeprom.offset + eeprom.len > ops->get_eeprom_len(dev)) return -EINVAL; - data = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_USER); + data = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_USER); if (!data) return -ENOMEM; @@ -1765,7 +1765,7 @@ static int ethtool_self_test(struct net_device *dev, char __user *useraddr) return -EFAULT; test.len = test_len; - data = kmalloc_array(test_len, sizeof(u64), GFP_USER); + data = kcalloc(test_len, sizeof(u64), GFP_USER); if (!data) return -ENOMEM; @@ -2281,7 +2281,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_tunable(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr) ret = ethtool_tunable_valid(&tuna); if (ret) return ret; - data = kmalloc(tuna.len, GFP_USER); + data = kzalloc(tuna.len, GFP_USER); if (!data) return -ENOMEM; ret = ops->get_tunable(dev, &tuna, data); @@ -2473,7 +2473,7 @@ static int get_phy_tunable(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr) ret = ethtool_phy_tunable_valid(&tuna); if (ret) return ret; - data = kmalloc(tuna.len, GFP_USER); + data = kzalloc(tuna.len, GFP_USER); if (!data) return -ENOMEM; if (phy_drv_tunable) {