This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
IB/core: Avoid leakage from kernel to user space
to the 3.14-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:
ib-core-avoid-leakage-from-kernel-to-user-space.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 377b513485fd885dea1083a9a5430df65b35e048 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Cohen <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:47:52 +0300
Subject: IB/core: Avoid leakage from kernel to user space
From: Eli Cohen <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 377b513485fd885dea1083a9a5430df65b35e048 upstream.
Clear the reserved field of struct ib_uverbs_async_event_desc which is
copied to user space.
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
@@ -476,6 +476,7 @@ static void ib_uverbs_async_handler(stru
entry->desc.async.element = element;
entry->desc.async.event_type = event;
+ entry->desc.async.reserved = 0;
entry->counter = counter;
list_add_tail(&entry->list, &file->async_file->event_list);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/ib-core-avoid-leakage-from-kernel-to-user-space.patch
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