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net/appletalk: Fix kernel memory disclosure
authorVlad Tsyrklevich <vlad@tsyrklevich.net>
Mon, 9 Jan 2017 13:57:48 +0000 (20:57 +0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 9 Jan 2017 21:34:39 +0000 (16:34 -0500)
ipddp_route structs contain alignment padding so kernel heap memory
is leaked when they are copied to user space in
ipddp_ioctl(SIOCFINDIPDDPRT). Change kmalloc() to kzalloc() to clear
that memory.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Tsyrklevich <vlad@tsyrklevich.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c

index b8c293373eccd8293ab50fea6a4ce25b1745076b..a306de4318d7d2301fdcb8f34c7045e884278ad4 100644 (file)
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t ipddp_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
  */
 static int ipddp_create(struct ipddp_route *new_rt)
 {
-        struct ipddp_route *rt = kmalloc(sizeof(*rt), GFP_KERNEL);
+        struct ipddp_route *rt = kzalloc(sizeof(*rt), GFP_KERNEL);
 
         if (rt == NULL)
                 return -ENOMEM;