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) {
