This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rds: fix an infoleak in rds_inc_info_copy
to the 4.4-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:
rds-fix-an-infoleak-in-rds_inc_info_copy.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4116def2337991b39919f3b448326e21c40e0dbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 04:11:20 -0400
Subject: rds: fix an infoleak in rds_inc_info_copy
From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 4116def2337991b39919f3b448326e21c40e0dbb upstream.
The last field "flags" of object "minfo" is not initialized.
Copying this object out may leak kernel stack data.
Assign 0 to it to avoid leak.
Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/rds/recv.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/net/rds/recv.c
+++ b/net/rds/recv.c
@@ -545,5 +545,7 @@ void rds_inc_info_copy(struct rds_incomi
minfo.fport = inc->i_hdr.h_dport;
}
+ minfo.flags = 0;
+
rds_info_copy(iter, &minfo, sizeof(minfo));
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kangjielu@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/0134-tipc-fix-an-infoleak-in-tipc_nl_compat_link_dump.patch
queue-4.4/rds-fix-an-infoleak-in-rds_inc_info_copy.patch
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