This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer
to the 4.19-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:
hid-core-zero-initialize-the-report-buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 0b385f38ed644237087e45d052a209dc2b15d3be
Author: Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 29 15:44:35 2024 +0100
HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer
[ Upstream commit 177f25d1292c7e16e1199b39c85480f7f8815552 ]
Since the report buffer is used by all kinds of drivers in various ways, let's
zero-initialize it during allocation to make sure that it can't be ever used
to leak kernel memory via specially-crafted report.
Fixes: 27ce405039bf ("HID: fix data access in implement()")
Reported-by: Benoît Sevens <bsevens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index 0757097d25507..3387e64d84412 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@ u8 *hid_alloc_report_buf(struct hid_report *report, gfp_t flags)
u32 len = hid_report_len(report) + 7;
- return kmalloc(len, flags);
+ return kzalloc(len, flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hid_alloc_report_buf);
