This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
USB: usbfs: don't leak kernel data in siginfo
to my usb git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git
in the usb-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From f0c2b68198589249afd2b1f2c4e8de8c03e19c16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:54:53 -0500
Subject: USB: usbfs: don't leak kernel data in siginfo
When a signal is delivered, the information in the siginfo structure
is copied to userspace. Good security practice dicatates that the
unused fields in this structure should be initialized to 0 so that
random kernel stack data isn't exposed to the user. This patch adds
such an initialization to the two places where usbfs raises signals.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
index 66abdbcfbfa5..11635537c052 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
@@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ static void async_completed(struct urb *urb)
as->status = urb->status;
signr = as->signr;
if (signr) {
+ memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo));
sinfo.si_signo = as->signr;
sinfo.si_errno = as->status;
sinfo.si_code = SI_ASYNCIO;
@@ -2382,6 +2383,7 @@ static void usbdev_remove(struct usb_device *udev)
wake_up_all(&ps->wait);
list_del_init(&ps->list);
if (ps->discsignr) {
+ memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo));
sinfo.si_signo = ps->discsignr;
sinfo.si_errno = EPIPE;
sinfo.si_code = SI_ASYNCIO;
--
2.3.0
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