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wext: fix potential private ioctl memory content leak
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:38:25 +0000 (00:38 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:51:27 +0000 (21:51 -0700)
commit7ca9783455c1226bcecd1e543b50e6cc38994535
tree73964602aeecbcbde8ff884699ec4b759ef39650
parentad2f6a9c0d0f32a05fbd033dfd0c8ac41e635125
wext: fix potential private ioctl memory content leak

commit df6d02300f7c2fbd0fbe626d819c8e5237d72c62 upstream.

When a driver doesn't fill the entire buffer, old
heap contents may remain, and if it also doesn't
update the length properly, this old heap content
will be copied back to userspace.

It is very unlikely that this happens in any of
the drivers using private ioctls since it would
show up as junk being reported by iwpriv, but it
seems better to be safe here, so use kzalloc.

Reported-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/wireless/wext-priv.c