This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: rtnetlink: fix info leak in RTM_GETSTATS call to the 4.9-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-rtnetlink-fix-info-leak-in-rtm_getstats-call.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Tue Oct 10 16:09:22 CEST 2017 From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 13:20:48 +0300 Subject: net: rtnetlink: fix info leak in RTM_GETSTATS call From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ce024f42c2e28b6bce4ecc1e891b42f57f753892 ] When RTM_GETSTATS was added the fields of its header struct were not all initialized when returning the result thus leaking 4 bytes of information to user-space per rtnl_fill_statsinfo call, so initialize them now. Thanks to Alexander Potapenko for the detailed report and bisection. Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 10c9ead9f3c6 ("rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats") Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -3758,6 +3758,9 @@ static int rtnl_fill_statsinfo(struct sk return -EMSGSIZE; ifsm = nlmsg_data(nlh); + ifsm->family = PF_UNSPEC; + ifsm->pad1 = 0; + ifsm->pad2 = 0; ifsm->ifindex = dev->ifindex; ifsm->filter_mask = filter_mask; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/net-rtnetlink-fix-info-leak-in-rtm_getstats-call.patch