[PATCH 4.9 004/172] net: Zero ifla_vf_info in rtnl_fill_vfinfo()

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4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Mintz, Yuval" <Yuval.Mintz@xxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit 0eed9cf58446b28b233388b7f224cbca268b6986 ]

Some of the structure's fields are not initialized by the
rtnetlink. If driver doesn't set those in ndo_get_vf_config(),
they'd leak memory to user.

Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1130,6 +1130,8 @@ static noinline_for_stack int rtnl_fill_
 	struct ifla_vf_mac vf_mac;
 	struct ifla_vf_info ivi;
 
+	memset(&ivi, 0, sizeof(ivi));
+
 	/* Not all SR-IOV capable drivers support the
 	 * spoofcheck and "RSS query enable" query.  Preset to
 	 * -1 so the user space tool can detect that the driver
@@ -1138,7 +1140,6 @@ static noinline_for_stack int rtnl_fill_
 	ivi.spoofchk = -1;
 	ivi.rss_query_en = -1;
 	ivi.trusted = -1;
-	memset(ivi.mac, 0, sizeof(ivi.mac));
 	/* The default value for VF link state is "auto"
 	 * IFLA_VF_LINK_STATE_AUTO which equals zero
 	 */





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