This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
irda: do not leak initialized list.dev to userspace
to the 4.12-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:
irda-do-not-leak-initialized-list.dev-to-userspace.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Aug 24 17:43:45 PDT 2017
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:14:58 +0100
Subject: irda: do not leak initialized list.dev to userspace
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit b024d949a3c24255a7ef1a470420eb478949aa4c ]
list.dev has not been initialized and so the copy_to_user is copying
data from the stack back to user space which is a potential
information leak. Fix this ensuring all of list is initialized to
zero.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357894 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/irda/af_irda.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/irda/af_irda.c
+++ b/net/irda/af_irda.c
@@ -2225,7 +2225,7 @@ static int irda_getsockopt(struct socket
{
struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
struct irda_sock *self = irda_sk(sk);
- struct irda_device_list list;
+ struct irda_device_list list = { 0 };
struct irda_device_info *discoveries;
struct irda_ias_set * ias_opt; /* IAS get/query params */
struct ias_object * ias_obj; /* Object in IAS */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.12/nfp-fix-infinite-loop-on-umapping-cleanup.patch
queue-4.12/irda-do-not-leak-initialized-list.dev-to-userspace.patch