Hello, On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > ------------------- > This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git > If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. > ------------------- > > commit 2d8a041b7bfe1097af21441cb77d6af95f4f4680 upstream. > > If at least one of CONFIG_IP_VS_PROTO_TCP or CONFIG_IP_VS_PROTO_UDP is > not set, __ip_vs_get_timeouts() does not fully initialize the structure > that gets copied to userland and that for leaks up to 12 bytes of kernel > stack. Add an explicit memset(0) before passing the structure to > __ip_vs_get_timeouts() to avoid the info leak. I guess, this patch is not needed after commit "ipvs: initialize returned data in do_ip_vs_get_ctl" because the memset is already moved into __ip_vs_get_timeouts(). > Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Wensong Zhang <wensong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c > index 36dc1d88c2fa..bd9d805a85a6 100644 > --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c > +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c > @@ -2469,6 +2469,7 @@ do_ip_vs_get_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd, void __user *user, int *len) > { > struct ip_vs_timeout_user t; > > + memset(&t, 0, sizeof(t)); > __ip_vs_get_timeouts(&t); > if (copy_to_user(user, &t, sizeof(t)) != 0) > ret = -EFAULT; > -- > 1.8.5.2 Regards -- Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html